Greg Rappleye’s poems have previously appeared in POETRY, The Southern Review, The North American Review, Arts & Letters, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, Water-Stone Review, and many other journals. His second collection, A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) won the Brittingham Prize. His third book, Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), won the Arkansas Prize in Poetry and was published in the Miller Williams Poetry Series. His fourth collection, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds, (Dos Madres Press, 2018) won the Arts & Letters Prize. He lives in Grand Haven, Michigan. The poems included here are from his new manuscript, Barley Child.
