Thursday, February 26, 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.

8 Comments:
That must have been you and me!
I know one of them was me.
I guess someone should have Tasered us on the spot.
Dr. Roy, perhaps.
Ah, I thought he was complaining about our panel being too gossipy, but now I see his complaint is that it wasn't gossipy enough.
I think the word he is grasping for is "snarky."
Our panel was not sufficiently snarky.
Apparently, our panel was not even as good as the panel at which NONE of the presenters showed up!
I was on a panel once where none of the presenters were the supposed presenters, with the exception of one famous poet who forgot his lecture and left to go to his room to find his lecture . . .
I wish I'd gone to your panel! I don't even know when it was, but I'm liking the recap here.
A "doctoral candidate in English at Texas A&M" seems ...well, it makes me laugh.
Let's review. We're being criticized by a "doctoral candidate in English at Texas A&M" whose rhetoric (1) is grounded in the text of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and who then (2) admits his vocabulary is unequal to the task he has set for himself.
Genius.
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