Milestones
Today is my birthday.
posted by greg rappleye at 6:25 AM
Monday, May 19, 2008
About Me
- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
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.
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19 Comments:
Happy birthday, Greg!
Hey!
Thank you!
Happy birthday!!! May, what a nice month to be born.
Happy Birthday!
Let the revels ensue!
Have a very happy birthday, Greg.
Happy Birthday, Greg! It's my birthday, too. How nice that I found my way to your blog today.
Happy 55th!
Happy birthday to you! Did you know that Wikipedia's example of poetic anacrusis is the "Happy" in in that classic lyric "Happy birthday to you"? Learn something new every day!
Everyone:
Thank you all.
Robert: I don't even know what "poetic anacrusis" is.
I will have to check that one out!
Greg, I doubt that anyone knows what "anacrusis" is. I looked it up because someone asked about it recently.
Happy Birthday, Greg!
Happy birthday! May your cake be yummy and your day be fun.
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! May you have a great day!
Thank you all. We are about to find out whether the cake is yummy.
The day has been pretty fun!
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful celebration that inspire you write such awesome poetry~!
Happy happy day!
Let you eat cake! And thanks for your blog, which is always fun to read.
I wonder if I am the only one here who knows the Milestones the tune? lol
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