Thoughts of a poet working in West Michigan
posted by greg rappleye at 7:04 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.
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I am sure you will never forget that song then, Greg. The word verification for this sounds quite appropriate - it is ouncycho
If I substitute Nick Cave every night, am I doomed to fail the bar?
But I bet you did not hear it with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks! :-)
Equally important, what was the other one? And I'll bet those were some pretty big headphones!
The day after I watched Derek and Warren do those beautiful things with their guitars, I heard Wilco's "Impossible Germany," where the guitars do equally beautiful things, and I thought of Greg the Midnight Rider!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97IT0-EDTtw
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