Wednesday, November 05, 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
- Obama in '08
- Optimistic Voices
- Meanwhile, Back on Standard Time...
- I Write Entirely for You, Constant Reader
- Chris Rea on David Letterman: The Road to Hell
- Draft of a Very Small Poem
- Best Ghost Movie Ever: "The Uninvited" (1944)
- Stop the Voices! No More Political Noise, Please!
- Now Reading: The Letters of Ted Hughes
- Birthdays


3 Comments:
I knew your blog was going to be a joyous one today, Greg - I think most of the world is joining you in the celebrations.
Yeah! I'm a happy camper, too!
Yes we did!
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