Linda Gregerson 
Author

Poems

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Übersetzung

SOSTENUTO english

Translations: de

to poem

PRODIGAL english

SLEEPING BEAR english

Translations: de

to poem

LOVE POEM I english

LOVE POEM II english

Linda Gregerson 
Author

photo © Nina Subin
* 05.08.1950, Elgin, Illinois, United States
lives in: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Linda Gregerson (born 1950) is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Prodigal: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015).
Gregerson’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Granta, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.

Gregerson also wrote two critical monographs and is co-editor of Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic (Philadelphia 2011).
Her essays on early modern English and contemporary American literature have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

 photo © Nina Subin
Among other things, she has received grants and prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, the Modern Poetry Association, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Arts and has been awarded by the Foundations of Guggenheim, Mellon and Rockefeller.

She is currently a professor at the University of Michigan, chair of the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Publications
  • Fire in the Conservatory

    Amherst, Massachusetts: Dragon Gate Press, 1982

  • The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep

    Boston: Mariner Books, 1996

  • Waterborne

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

  • Magnetic North

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

  • Empires of God

    Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic

    Ed. by Linda Gregerson and Susan Juster

    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

  • The Selvage

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

  • Prodigal

    New and Selected Poems, 1976 to 2014

    Boston: Mariner Books, 2015

Awards
  • 1992 Consuelo Ford Award of the Poetry Society of America

  • 2000 Fellow of the Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2002 Academy Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 2008 Scholarship of the Mellon Foundation

  • Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine

  • Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

  • Isabel MacCaffrey Award

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