Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 11:00 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.
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i wish it would have gone to a 7th game, but the pens put up a good fight. http://mmafight.ca full credit to the wings though. they thoroughly outplayed the young pens.
Seven games? I think my husband, Rich, barely made it through this many...Last night he could hardly bear to watch. I kept checking to see if his nitro was handy. I'm not a rabid fan but couldn't help but be impressed with the skill, heart and stamina of both teams. That Penguin goalie deserves some kind of bonus/award!
I loved the body expression of Chris Osgood as he looked around in the last seconds to see whether the Penguins had scored a goal or not.
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