Locke, Duane

Poet.

From the description of Papers, 1960-1987. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 31190163

Duane Locke is a poet, editor, and University of Tampa professor of English and poet-in-residence. Locke is the author of more than 2000 poems, published in numerous magazines and some 14 books. He edited the Poetry Review (University of Tampa, 1964-1971), the UT Review (1972-1982), and Abatis (University of Tampa, 1983-1986). He was the leader of a group of poets, mostly his former students, who practiced what Locke called "linguistic realism," and known as immanentists. The Immanentist Anthology: Art of the Superconscious (The Smith, 1973), and Mantras: an Anthology of Immantentist Poetry (ed. Alan Britt, Floating Hair Press, 1973) illustrate this poetry. Locke received a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1958 and was on the University of Tampa faculty throughout his academic career.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2002.

From the guide to the Duane Locke Papers, 1956-1976, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)