Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 8:02 AM
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.
2 Comments:
I agree it's in the blood, Greg' I used to have a G.S.H. Pointer called Oscar (sadly he died in May). He had never pointed professionally so to speak but whenever we walked he would even point at bumblebees. What would we do without our dogs?
My little town always goes a little nuts on opening days. I remember a few years ago on opening day of shotgun for deer and the liquor store was full of oranged-hatted men who had given up, and there were lots of pickup trucks crusing the few blocks of town (population 2,000) with their kill on display. I wrote a poem about it, but can't seem to find it.
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