Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 5:46 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:
My American blog friends all seem to live in such marvellous places - near to the Pacific, Vancouver Island - now I see you live close by a lake. Can you be more specific as to where you live, Greg, so that I can look you up on the map, please?
I live in (well, actually, just north of) Grand Haven, Michigan, which is in Michigan's lower peninsula--the part of America that sits in the middle of the Great Lakes and looks like the palm of a hand. I live only about a mile from Lake Michigan, just north of the Grand River. The town I live in is about 80 miles due east of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (which is on the western shore of Lake Michigan), and 150 miles or-so Northeast of Chicago, Illinois.
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