Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 8:45 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:
I enjoyed "Streets In Their Own Ink." http://taliatulledge.blogspot.com/2007/08/streets-in-their-own-ink-by-stuart.html
But a $500,000 grant? Is that taxpayer money? (Sorry, I just can't help myself). At least it went to a poet I like...otherwise it would really be a shameful waste.
Talia:
The money is from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, not from the government. The money is paid to the recipient over 5 years, at $100,000 per.
When you stop and think about it, $500,000 isn't THAT much money. A good heart surgeon who has practiced 35 years or-so might make twice that amount a year, every year. An actor might get $10 or $20 million for six weeks worth of work in one movie.
An award of $500,000 only seems like a lot of money in the writing world because we are USED to being paid in copies of the journals we publish in, not in real dollars.
That is true. But an extra $100,000 this year would pay off all of my debts including mortgage and student loans, would be a nice amount of start-up for my husband to open up his dream car lot...
Maybe I'll just work hard as an English teacher and hope someone nominates me as a genius.
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