How Cool!
My poem "Blackbirds" which appeared in the April, 2004 edition of POETRY, is the "Poem of the Day" today on the Poetry Foundation's website.
posted by greg rappleye at 10:01 PM
Saturday, July 19, 2008
My poem "Blackbirds" which appeared in the April, 2004 edition of POETRY, is the "Poem of the Day" today on the Poetry Foundation's website.
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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7 Comments:
It is a wonderful poem!
--Ed
Yes, a wonderful poem. And so cool that it had a second life.
Ted and I started our day by listening to it at the kitchen table. Thank you for this Sunday treat. I love the way it ends. Whose voice is it, do you know?
Nice. Congrats.
What a nice surprise!
Thank you all.
No, I do not know who is reading the poem on this recording.
Congratulations, Greg. That's a fine poem.
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