DU English Professor Bin Ramke, the Phipps Chair in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, describes his poetry as experimental.
Through poetry he explores etymology and language, the shades of meaning in a word or in an arrangement of words, the way certain words or phrases feel in the mouth, the way they look on the page.
"Poetry...doesn't necessarily use language to contain information," he explains. "The sort of work I do is concerned with sound, but in a subtle, nuanced way. It's a combination of personal imagination and experience--experience in an unrecognizable form."
Please watch an online poetry reading with DU's poet-in-residence: