Linda Gregerson
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Linda Gregerson (born August 5, 1950) is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan .
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.[1] She teaches American poetry and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan,[2] 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[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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
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