Obama in '08
posted by greg rappleye at 6:55 AM
Tuesday, November 04, 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.
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9 Comments:
Oh man. I have been unable to sleep for weeks, waiting and hoping . . .
I'll be posting a link to some favourite Mercedes Sosa soon... but I've chosen another song for this historic day. May the best man win.
Yes! I made it to the polls in Riverdale at about 7:45 this morning. There was a small line (well, big for Riverdale) out the door and things were a bit disorganized but everybody was in a great mood. Let's have some good news tonight. We need it!
Greg - we in the UK are also excited about your election and the prospect of a new beginning - do hope all goes to plan. Best wishes.
Voted yesterday. Did you know that the county will send someone to your house if you're unable to go to the poll due to a disability? I'm unable to stand for very long and so they sent someone out yesterday and I was able to vote from home. I didn't realize they did that. I was very grateful.
Nearly three hours to vote this morning, and now we're in the home stretch. I'll be up all night.
Terri,
I did not know they did that...interesting. I heard on CNN today that the military has to mail in their ballots, but because the military mail is so slow, they've yet to receive the ballots to mail in. So, those who are putting their very l ives on the line aren't even able to have say in the election. Not fair.
We have lots to be happy for.
YES WE DID!
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