Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 3:30 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.
4 Comments:
Love that picture, Greg - particularly blown up. You are not alone in getting an image in your head at 3.30am - all my best images and thoughts occur at around that time - my theory is that all the "rubbish" i have been cluttering my head with all day has gone and my mind is open to suggestion!!
Of course. But lately, oh man, I need my sleep!
We have several books of Salgado, one of them signed. Amazing photographs.
Whenever compelling ideas or words
present themselves in my mind, if I
do not note them down immediately,
they almost invariably fade away.
I love Salgado's work. He is a genius. He did pix of the Kuwait oil fires after the first gulf war that were astonishing.
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