Friday 13 April (3222 Angell Hall)
4:00-5:00
Linda Gregerson
— University of Michigan
Reading I
Books:
Magnetic North(Houghton Mifflin, 2007); Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002); Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (University of Michigan, 2001); The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Fire in the Conservatory (Dragon Gate Press, 1982).
BIO
Linda Gregerson is the author of four books of poetry, Magnetic North, Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory, as well as two books of criticism, The Reformation of the Subject and Negative Capability. Winner of the 2003 Kingsley Tufts Award, she has also received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, Poetry magazine, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the NEA twice. She is on the MFA faculty at the University of Michigan.