Linda Gregerson

Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950) is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2014, she was named as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.[1]

Linda Gregerson on the presentation of her book "Breathing machines" at the club "Peroto", National Palace of Culture, Sofia

Life

Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971, an M.A. from Northwestern University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University.[2] She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan,[3] where she has also directed the M.F.A. program in creative writing.

She served as the judge for the 2008 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies.

Awards

  • Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Waterborne
  • The Poet's Prize finalist
  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize finalist for The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
  • Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine
  • Consuelo Ford Award from the Poetry Society of America
  • Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the Spenser Society of America
  • 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Pushcart Prize.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Fire in the Conservatory (1982)
  • The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996)
  • Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
  • Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
  • The Selvage (Houghton Mifflin, 2012)[4]
  • "Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014" (Houghton Mifflin, 2015)
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Ceres lamenting 2014 "Ceres lamenting". The New Yorker. 90 (22): 40–41. August 4, 2014.
The death of Ananias 2009 "The death of Ananias". The Poetry Review. Winter 2009.

Non-fiction

  • The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995)
  • Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001)

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2015-01-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Poets, Academy of American. "Linda Gregerson - Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
  3. "Linda Gregerson". www-personal.umich.edu.
  4. "The Selvage: Poems: Linda Gregerson: 9780547750095: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
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