Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 5:53 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:
These were beautiful.
Wow.
I especially love:
As we danced
the Quadrille, I watched
your humid eyes,
the turn of your fan.
Your masque was pale,
All three are lovely!
And just fyi--if you need to indent, you can use a non-breaking space. Just type     over and over until it is indented as much as you want--each   is only one space, so you might need a lot of them.
Beautiful. Did you listen to the Met on Saturday or find a live broadcast at a local movie theater? I thought of you and wondered...
Hello Greg,
I missed the broadcast last week and was just checking what else is coming up. It appears there is a rebroadcast as well...this Wednesday. There is a participating theater in Holland. Here is the link...scroll down and you'll find it. Well, you may not even find this message, I suppose. Do you get notification when a comment is posted or are you expected to wander back into the archives and look for random messages? Oh yes. The link: http://www.gqti.com/ncm-met08.aspx
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