Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 4:18 PM
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.
5 Comments:
Ouch! Good thing the Sox built up such a lead. But they will probably find a way to blow it. They almost always do.
I love pie.
Andrew:
The Red Sox are my second-favorite team. I love to watch them beat up on the Yankees.
Leslie:
Cherry. It was good!
The Red Sox could finish next to last, and it would still be a good season, if the Yankees were in last. :-)
Andrew:
I have a friend, Rod Torreson, who wrote a book of poems titled "A Ripening of Pin Stripes: Called Shots on the New York Yankees," published by Story Line Press in 1998. He's a really nice guy (I think the Yankees had a farm team near where he grew up in Iowa, ergo his interest) but he is...let's say "misguided."
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