Peter Meinke
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Peter Meinke (1932-) is a St.Petersburg, Florida poet/author. He has published 14 books of poems and his book of 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.[1], [2].
[edit] Biography
Meinke and his wife, the artist Jeanne Clark, have lived in St. Petersburg since 1966. He was a professor at Eckerd College for 27 years were 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 of 2007. From 2003 through 2005, he held the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. [3]
[edit] Works
Peter Meinke's books include:[4]
- The Contracted World: New & More Selected Poems (2006)
- The Piano Tuner (ISBN 0-8203-1645-8)
- Unheard Music
- Zinc Fingers: Poems A to Z (Pitt Poetry Series) (2000) (ISBN 0-8229-5724-8)
- The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry (1999)
- Scars (1996)
- Liquid Paper (1992)
- Far from Home (1988)
- Night Watch on the Chesapeake (1987)
- Trying to Surprise God (1981)
- The rat poems: Or, Rats live on no evil star (1978)
- The night train & The golden bird (1977)
- Lines from Neuchatel (1974)
- Howard Nemerov (1968)
- The Legend of Larry, the lizard (1968)
- Campocorto (Sow's ear) (1996)
- Underneath the Lantern (1986)
