Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 5:24 AM
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.
10 Comments:
Wahoo!
(about the chapbook, not the busy day, which I hope goes well)
Cool! Good for you.
Congratulations!
Keep sending it out.
Way to go. Your full-length arrived in my mailbox
this week. I'm looking forward to a good read.
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Congratulations!
Woohoo!
Belated congrats!
Congrats! (Sorry I'm a little late -- good luck with the semester!)
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