Jack Ramey

Jack Ramey is a poet, author, performer, and English professor at Indiana University SE. His poetry books include "The Future Past," "Death Sings in the Choir of Light," and "Eavesdropping in Plato’s Café," which was released by Springwood Press in April 2015. His documentary, "William Blake: Inspiration and Vision," won an Aegis award for best educational film. He posts poems and reviews each week at springwoodpress.org. His article, "The Coffee Planter of St. Domingo: A Technical Manual for the Caribbean Slave Owner," examines the rhetoric of racism.

In his early years, Jack was a member of the counterculture and read his poetry in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Eugene, Victoria BC, and Kent OH. He then moved to Manhattan to work in the theater. His one-person show "Dark Is a Long Way: An Evening with Dylan Thomas" ran for two years at the 13th Street Theater in NYC, at the Odyssey Theater in LA, and toured the country. His acting roles in NYC include the role of Bunthorne – a parody of Oscar Wilde – in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience. He taught in Stockholm for several years. On his return to America, he performed in medieval plays with the Chicago Medieval Players and often read his poetry at the Green Mill, where he was a finalist in the Chicago Slam.