Culturebot Speaks Up
posted by greg rappleye at 6:42 PM
Saturday, February 07, 2009
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
- No Pie for You, Either! A Lack of Arts Funding: It...
- Last Word on the Subject
- Forget it Man, Granholm Dropped the Big One...
- Why Won't ArtServe of Michigan Stand Up for Michig...
- O Artists? Writers? Poets? Dancers? Musicians? His...
- Good News!
- Larry Levis: A Condition of the Spirit
- State of the State
- Department of Bad Ideas, Lansing, Michigan
- A Few Minutes with Paul Auster
1 Comments:
Greg - I haven't been on your site in months, maybe a year - last time was when I was trying to track you down for an article for the Grand Rapids Legal News... But anyway, I was for no good reason unaware of the controversy over cutting arts funding. Where does it stand now? The real comment I have is that it flies in the face of all the "new economy" analysis (coming in large part out of some state agencies and MSU's Land Policy Institute and other economics-driven analyses) that says attracting the creative class (which no one ever really questions is a goal) is much facilitated by high commitment to "arts and culture." On a national scale that doesn't bring any policy to mind (that is, we don't seem to be competing against Europe for retaining all those young creatives), but from a Michigan point of view, it's counterintuitive. Thoughts?
Post a Comment
<< Home