Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 6:51 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:
How come Hillary is on the ballot? I thought the party spanked the state for fast-forwarding the primary and pretty much blackballed it. I thought nobody would be on the ballot.
Leslie:
They did, but Hillary was not able (or chose not) to withdraw her name "in time."
Hillary simply chose not to, saying that it was pointless since the delegates wouldn't be seated anyways, and an unnecessary "slap in the face" to Michigan. It was Kucinich that tried to remove his name, but didn't file the paperwork in time.
You can find out more at WhoStoleMiVote.org
It seems like a waste of money---MI having so little these days---to hold a "half a primary." I am convinced there can be no useful info gained. The Republican vote will undoubtedly be skewed by the circumstances, and all we'll get is TV talkers making predictions and analyzing their analyzings. More time off real topics...
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