Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 12:27 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.
7 Comments:
Greg, thank you for linking to this.
My answer usually starts with, "Duh..."
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Brian:
Mine, too.
Greg, have you read his new book ... Primer something?
Keith:
Yes, I have read the book: A Primer on Parallel Lives (Copper Canyon Press, 2007). It is very, very good. Dan is actually a good friend of mine--has been for almost 20 years. But for him, I doubt if I would be writing at all today.
It is the first question always asked, as if the interrogator needs to know what pigeonhole to press you into so they can complete their brief and quick evaluation. I always say my work is about language, and smile sardonically.
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