A distinguished composer and arranger of educational keyboard music, Mr. Poe graduated Auburn University, where he studied with Hubert Liverman and Blanca Renard. In addition to private teaching, Mr. Poe taught piano and theory at Muscogee Music Conservatory, and held positions as choir director and organist for several churches in Georgia.

Mr. Poe was an active member of local, state, and national music teachers association groups and had served as an adjudicator for student festivals and competitions throughout the United States.