Peter Meinke was born in Brooklyn, New York. He married Jeanne Clark in 1957, and they have four children, Perrie, Peter, Gretchen, and Timothy. Meinke received an A.B. degree from Hamilton College in 1955, an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1961, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1965. He has been a visiting summer professor at the University of Sussex (1969) and Fulbright lecturer in American poetry at the University of Warsaw (1978-1979). From 1961-1966 he taught at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, returning there as poet-in-residence in 1973. In 1968 he went to teach at Florida Presbyterian College (later renamed Eckerd College) in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is currently professor of English literature and director of the creative writing program at Eckerd. Although Meinke is not well known, he is an accomplished poet of proven talent. For two decades his work has been published in...