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Peter Meinke, A past Director of the Eckerd College Writing Workshop, is an Emeritus Professor 
and guest lecturer in creative writing courses. He is our invited guest for the
Summer/Fall edition of Word Smitten.
This noted poet and fiction writer provides the world's elegant readers with his wit and insight. My favorite work is one in which his unique brand of observational humor describes incidental pickpockets accosting our lives and our minds. Tangled up with science and amused wisdom, this work lingers. It's joyous and dangerous. Contained in the recently released Zinc Fingers, it's an accurately described pick-pocketing incident, one of such adjoined marauding, that halfway through it, it compels readers to reassuringly pat their own wallets. We are pleased to welcome Professor Peter Meinke as part of Word Smitten's literary team. A participant in the judging of the summer 2002 fiction competition (the TenTen Fiction Competition), Professor Meinke gives our site members the gift of his time, the gift of patrician literary and poetic traditions.
As he says in this month's exclusive interview with Word Smitten, "My own stories and poems were helped when I won contests - my book, THE PIANO TUNER, received the Flannery O' Connor Award in Short Fiction - so I think I should do my part in this process. And of course, in my experience, I often get to read some terrific stories or poems."
After you read his interview, we recommend you visit Eckerd College's Web site
to discover more about Peter Meinke's poetic and notable observations of our
world. Click here for this
month's Q&A with Peter Meinke. Click here to read more
about Peter Meinke.
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With
a combination of both seasoned and newly emerging groups of fiction writers to
choose from, we know that Professor Meinke will select a candidate of remarkable
talent.
