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Or rather, I suppose, the space immediately above this one.
More later!
posted by greg rappleye at 2:15 PM
Thursday, June 07, 2007
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.
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- Of Insects and Wood-sheds
- We Do Not Make These Things Up
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- Thought for the Day
- The Angels Are Bowling
- An Absurd Goal, with Audience Reaction
- 9. My Friend Punch
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5 Comments:
Dear Greg,
Sorry to write you about something unconnected to the post, but Doug Ramsey of Rifftides wrote me that he wanted to read your Grover Washington/Miles Davis post, and it appears that you took it down. I think he wanted to see what version of the story you told, as he might want to post something about the story.
Drop me a line as to how Doug can contact you?
andrew dot shields at unibas dot ch
Greg,
I nominated your blog for a Thinking Blogger's Award. For details check:
http://shootingpoets.blogspot.com/
Andrew:
Yes, I did take the post down, because I thought it was poorly written--I could not seem to make my intention clear, and by attributing "actual events" to "actual persons," I thought I might be misleading the reader.
I know (based upon a vague recollection of the liner notes to "Mr. Magic"--a circa 1975 reading) that it is at least SUGGESTED that Miles Davis came to hear Grover Washington, Jr., and, after listening, made the remark. In a clumsy attempt to make a point unrelated to the actual events, I was unable to make it clear that I didn't know (and didn't care) whether the "story" I had largely "made up" was true or not.
Upon reflection, that struck me as dangerous ground (even for a relatively benign story) so I took the post down.
I particularly appreciate your interest in this, since it is what prompted me to think again about the post.
Thanks!
Nick:
Thank you!
I'm familiar with this; it is a great honor.
Greg, Congrats on the Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize. Enjoyed your reading of one of those poems at Walden green. Thanks for the additional writing you gave me. Incidentially I printed your last blog page for later perusal and read my name. Hope we can get together sometime. My mail: robmich@triton.net
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