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 (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 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.
| 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. |
