The Parade of Progress
On May 19, 1953, a General Motors Futurliner was on its way to your hometown to show your grandparents how we'd all live in the amazing world of tomorrow.
In other news, I was born.
posted by greg rappleye at 9:59 AM
Saturday, May 19, 2007
On May 19, 1953, a General Motors Futurliner was on its way to your hometown to show your grandparents how we'd all live in the amazing world of tomorrow.
In other news, I was born.
About Me
- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
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.
Previous Posts
- ...And Home Again
- Hello, from Iowa City
- The Reading
- A Moment with Zbigniew Herbert
- In Another Country
- Good Morning
- Orpheus
- Cinco de Mayo
- Dan Gerber on Poetry Daily
- Jonah's Story
5 Comments:
Hi dearie. Happy birthday. What a happy birthday! Kiss Marsha and the boys for me, and then make them kiss you back for me. I'm really, really happy for you. Can't wait to tell Ridl about the good news. Isn't it lovely to wake up from a bad dream?
Happy birthday!
Late Happy Birthday, Greg!
My last post seems to have shown up from my niece Lauren Worth, who was visiting. Sorry if that was confusing.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
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