Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 6:52 AM
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
7 Comments:
And while Silliman does sound like a Tolkien name, it's pretty pitiful for a villain. "Siluman," now, maybe, slouching toward Dubuque.
I thought Silliman was the one not saying nice things, calling two poets fascists for reasons that don't much bear investigation...
Anyway, Silliman probably won't respond -- all he'd end up doing would be sending web traffic in the direction of his detractors. (I think the only time he ever responded to any of my criticism was the time I pointed out that his claim that Robert Louis Stevenson was an American writer was wrong. Ron actually didn't admit that Stevenson wasn't American, saying that Stevenson would "always be a California writer to me." That's setting the bar awfully low: it would mean living somewhere for about two years would make you a writer of that place. I wish I could bring myself to believe in this set of criteria -- then I could be a Swedish writer, and aspire to membership in the Swedish Academy, and I could vote on the Novel Prize.
All best,
Bob
I mean "Nobel Prize," not "Novel Prize." I shouldn't try to type while eating a reuben! No more lunchtime multi-tasking for me...
Bob
Susan:
Or perhaps, "The Silliman-marillon"?
Greg R.
Bob:
You are correct about who (Ron S.) stated all the non-niceness. I do think your comments are right on point, and very funny!
All the Best,
Greg R.
Bob:
And I meant to type "started."
Greg R.
I liked the idea of the Novel Prize. :-)
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