About

For many years, Dr. Wink’s passion has been reading, writing, memorizing, thinking about and talking about poetry. He has published two volumes of poems, "Haunting the Winerunner" (August House Press, 1982) and "Seven Ways to Prune a Grapefruits (2013), and he has had roughly fifty poems appear in various publications (e.g., "The Christian Science Monitor," "The Plains Poetry Journal," "The Kentucky Review," "The Kansas Quarterly," "Moondance" and "Christianity and Literature."

For twenty years, Dr. Wink has done a lot of speaking on the topic of poetry. He has addressed various branches of the Poets’ Roundtable of Arkansas, sundry Arkansas Arts Councils, and a good many elementary, junior high and high school classes.

Dr. Wink believes poetry gets a bad press in our culture; therefore, through his work he strives to reverse that trend.