Name Peter Meinke | Role Poet | |
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Education Hamilton College, University of Minnesota Awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Books The Piano Tuner, The shape of poetry, Liquid Paper: New and, The Contracted World, Trying to surprise God | ||
Florida poets project peter meinke
Peter Meinke (born 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and author. He has published 18 books of poems and short stories. The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including 2 NEA Fellowships and 3 prizes from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and other magazines.
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- Florida poets project peter meinke
- Poet laureate peter meinke reads his poem one year later
- Biography
- Works
- Peter meinke florida poet laureate poetry music unite naples fl 8 15 17
- Naked poetry by peter meinke
- References
Poet laureate peter meinke reads his poem one year later
Biography
Meinke and his wife, the artist Jeanne Clark, have lived in St. Petersburg, Florida since 1966. For 27 years, Meinke was a professor at Eckerd College, where he was a director of the EC Writing Workshop. In February 2004, he was inducted as a foundation member into the Eckerd College Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Zeta of Florida. He also served on the faculty of the Eckerd College's Third Annual Writers in Paradise Conference in January 2007. From 2003 through 2005, he held the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University.
Works
Meinke's published books include:
