Greg Rappleye

Greg Rappleye's poems have previously appeared in Shenandoah, and in Poetry, The Southern Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. His second book of poems, A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. His third, Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007) was runner-up for the Dorset Prize and was published in the Miller Williams Poetry Series. He teaches at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

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Shotgun Death, with Dodge and Northern Catalpa

Greg Rappleye  | 
Issue 67.2 Spring 2018

-Catalpa speciosa -March 26, 1951 How long have they idled, motor throttled down, off the two-track, at rest on snow-crust in his ’47 Dodge, its chrome bumper, its yellow fog lamps, facing the catalpa tree, the heater madly whirring against …