Linda Gregerson Explained
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]
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 took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College in the academic year 2009–2010.
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) [5]
- Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014, (Houghton Mifflin, 2015) [6]
- Canopy, Ecco, New York, 2022. [7]
- List of poems
width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Ceres lamenting | 2014 | | |
The death of Ananias | 2009 | | | |
Non-fiction
- The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995)
- Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 3 new Chancellors named to poetry academy - the Killeen Daily Herald: Entertainment . 2015-01-18 . dead . https://archive.today/20150119050910/http://kdhnews.com/living/ae/new-chancellors-named-to-poetry-academy/article_b7f391a4-54eb-53db-b8ca-ca9c929e8072.html . 2015-01-19 .
- Web site: Linda Gregerson - Academy of American Poets. Academy of American. Poets. poets.org.
- Web site: Linda Gregerson. www-personal.umich.edu.
- Web site: 2021-05-26. Linda Gregerson. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
- Book: The Selvage: Poems: Linda Gregerson: 9780547750095: Amazon.com: Books . 978-0547750095 . Gregerson . Linda . 2012 . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt .
- 2015-08-24 . The Dauntless Verse of Linda Gregerson . 2022-09-01 . The New Yorker . en-US.
- News: Burt . Stephanie . 2022-04-15 . A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-09-01 . 0362-4331.