He graduated from at Louisiana State University, from University of New Orleans, and from Ohio University with a Ph.D.He taught at Columbus College.
He was editor of the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poetry Series, from 1984 to 2005.In 2005, he became involved in the Contemporary Poetry Series controversy about Jorie Graham's selection of Peter Sacks.He resigned as editor.
He teaches at the University of Denver. He edits the literary magazine Denver Quarterly.He lives in Denver with his wife, Linda, a fiction writer, and their son, Nic.
Few things are as delightfully overwhelming as the ceaseless, heartbreaking webs of possibility and verse that Bin Ramke whirls. In an interview in February of last year, Ramke foretold the strange magics employed in his most recent book, Matter. Preparing to write this review, I had to dig the thing up from its sloppy filing.