I Actually Am--Working on It
Chris Rea again.
"I got eight little fingers and only two thumbs..."
posted by greg rappleye at 6:55 AM
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Chris Rea again.
"I got eight little fingers and only two thumbs..."
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
- Note to Self
- Antique Muses Stir a Modern Orpheus
- Annie Proulx: No Longer at Home on the Range
- Chris Rea: On the Beach
- The English 155 Class Reading
- Meanwhile, far from the Dream Coasts...
- Reading Adam Kirsch
- Atonement (2007)
- Duck & Goose Season
- John Milton's "Paradise Lost" at the Morgan Librar...
4 Comments:
Love it.
Hi, Prof. Rappleye - this is Amanda Karby (Poetry155). I figure I could now check out your blog, since you're no longer ... grading all of my work, haha.
Hope all is well!
-amk.
I'm tired of this. Send me your new work, and I'll send you mine. Currently working on something good. You better be, too.
Professor Rappleye sounds like a fun guy!
Your daughter.
Amanda:
Good to hear from you!
I like your blog. And you're writing a novel?
Well, I am not surprised!
More later.
Hannah:
For the record, Professor Rappleye is way-big-jumbo fun. I'm not sure which poem you last saw of mine. I have been working very slowly since the beginning of school.
Not to worry--a breakthrough is coming.
Yes, send me whatever you are working on.
Love,
Your Dad
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