Greg Rappleye, an award-winning poet from Grand Haven, Mich., will read from his works Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall on the campus of Westminster College.

Rappleye will read from his first book, Holding Down the Earth, published in 1995, as well as A Path Between Houses, published in 2000 and winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry.

In 2001, he also won the Paumanok Poetry Award from the State University of New York at Farmingdale, and was the Margaret Bridgman Fellow in Poetry at the 2002 Breadloaf Writers' Conference.

Rappleye's work has appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Mississippi Review, Quarterly West, Bellingham Review, Puerto del Sol, The Sycamore Review, New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses.

Rappleye, who teaches in the English Department at Hope College, is a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and earned a master's in writing from the Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.  When he is not teaching or writing, Rappleye works as corporate counsel for Ottawa County, Mich.

This colloquium is the final presentation in a series of five scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at Westminster from 1954-75.

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information, contact Dr. James Perkins, chair and professor of the Westminster College Department of English and Public Relations Department at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7347 or e-mail jperkins@westminster.edu.