sonnets at 4 a.m.: Martin Johnson Heade's Black-Breasted Plovercrest (1864-1865)

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Martin Johnson Heade's Black-Breasted Plovercrest (1864-1865)

I am working on a villanelle about this painting; another poem in my Heade series. Yes, it actually does rhyme, something I rarely try.

I will probably post a draft of this one, as soon as I've done a bit of polishing.

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In other news, the reported norovirus cases at Hope College are up over 400, and the college is going to stay closed at least until Wednesday morning.

2 Comments:

Talia said...: I'm reading a chapbook about birds: "How to Study Birds" by Sarah Gardener. I dig it. Perhaps you should check it out, with all the bird talk...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5171594.How_to_Study_Birds; 9:34 PM
Andrew Shields said...: Thanks for posting that gorgeous picture!; 5:47 AM

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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.

sonnets at 4 a.m.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Martin Johnson Heade's Black-Breasted Plovercrest (1864-1865)

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