Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 8:58 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:
My mom got a thank you note today from one of her clients and she had it up on her fridge. I thought of you because it had a Heade painting on the cover.
How cool. I wonder where the sender got those?
Heade is everywhere lately. There is a new book out about him, too.
I blogged (briefly) about the book several weeks ago. I have it (the book) but haven't read it yet. Can't remember the title.
Greg, I loved your comments on community. There may be too many poets (I don't think so) but I believe there are way too many critics. I'm looking forward to your next book, and I'm glad you made it through the storms. Dawn
I think it was a client who was a University of Notre Dame professor, so good taste.
If you look at Duotrope, you'll find there are a number of interesting reviews that accept submissions in the summer. They also tell you which ones are temporarily closed for submissions too.
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