Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 6:38 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.
9 Comments:
Going to Jackson!
Yay!!!
It's about time!
Excellent, Greg!
That building is the exact same exterior for the Carnegie building in my home town, which served as the library for many years.
Have fun at the reading!
Greg, I should not admit this but to a large extent I have from Jackson.
While you are there ask the library folks to get you to a place called The International Dog House - on Mechanic street I think. And get the Swiss dog.
Woah! Just read the whole post on J-town. Where did you live?
Keith:
I lived on Wall Street (east of Milwaukee Street) when I was a little kid and then on First Street (not far from Griswold Elementary School) through High School.
Wow. Small world, etc. My dad lived on Second Street for a while. I certainly know the area. Do you still have family in the area?
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