Draft
*poof!*
posted by greg rappleye at 8:26 PM
Thursday, August 14, 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.
Previous Posts
- Olympics Update
- Draft of a New Poem
- Another Blackberry Poem
- Senior Discount?
- Comment
- The Poem, Redux & Un-Poofed; Re-Poofed
- Vegetarians, Beware!
- Declaration of an Olympics-Free Zone
- Poem
- Aimless Draft
3 Comments:
I'm of two minds on this one. I love it, but I think it's too long. I'm wondering if it would work better as a prose poem. I'm not even sure where I would make cuts. It's amazing how much you got out of the film and into the poem. I'm really impressed.
Thanks, Colin.
The poem has been cut (about 40 lines) but it may need more.
Ha! I saw it just before it went poof! I love the surprising way the movie and and the painting come together.
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