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]

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^[4]
• Pushcart Prize.

Works

• "The Death Of Ananias" from "The Life Of St Peter", Poetry Review 99:4,Winter 2009
• "At the Window", Slate, Dec. 12, 2006
• "No Lion, No Moon"; "My Father Comes Back From The Grave"; "Prodigal", Reading Between A&B
• The Selvage (Houghton Mifflin, 2012)^[5]
• Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
• Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002)
• The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996)
• Fire in the Conservatory (1982)

Criticism

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

References

External links

• Official Home Page