Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 7:37 PM
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.
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My new car came with a nav system and I am totally serious: it rocks. They aren't that expensive at places like wal-mart or Target, and pretty much any 6 year old can use them.
Highly recommended.
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Uh, I am sort of a four year-old.
And none too clever at that.
ha ha
The first time I used one, I was in a rental car, and there was an option on the nav system that said, basically, go home. It brought me right to the airport.
Which was as close to home as I could get in a car.
Hey, I'm looking forward to this reading.
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Margaret:
Look forward to seeing you there!
12:17 PM
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