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 "Peroto" club, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, 2018

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

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) ISBN 9780547750095[5]
  • Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014, (Houghton Mifflin, 2015) ISBN 9780544301672 [6]
  • Canopy, Ecco, New York, 2022. ISBN 9780358671053[7]
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. "3 new Chancellors named to poetry academy - the Killeen Daily Herald: Entertainment". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2015-01-18.
  2. Poets, Academy of American. "Linda Gregerson - Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
  3. "Linda Gregerson". www-personal.umich.edu.
  4. "Linda Gregerson". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  5. Gregerson, Linda (2012). The Selvage: Poems: Linda Gregerson: 9780547750095: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 978-0547750095.
  6. "The Dauntless Verse of Linda Gregerson". The New Yorker. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
  7. Burt, Stephanie (2022-04-15). "A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
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