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.
Bibliography[]
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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)
- 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[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-01-19. Retrieved 2015-01-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Poets, Academy of American. "Linda Gregerson - Academy of American Poets". poets.org.
- ^ "Linda Gregerson". www-personal.umich.edu.
- ^ "Linda Gregerson". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ The Selvage: Poems: Linda Gregerson: 9780547750095: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN 0547750099.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1950 births
- Living people
- American women poets
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- The New Yorker people
- Northwestern University alumni
- Oberlin College alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Michigan faculty
- American women academics