Gregerson, Linda

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GREGERSON, Linda

GREGERSON, Linda. American, b. 1950. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: Kraken (theater company), actress, 1972-75; Atlantic Monthly, Boston, MA, staff editor, 1982-87; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, instructor, 1985-87; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, assistant professor, 1987-94, associate professor, 1994-2001, professor of English, 2001-. Boston University, visiting associate professor, 1985-86; American Heritage Dictionary, member of usage panel. Recipient: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, 2003. Publications: Fire in the Conservatory (poems), 1982; The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic, 1995; The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (poems), 1996; Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry, 2001; Waterborne (poems), 2002. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to books. Contributor of poems to literary magazines. Contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly journals and newspapers. Address: Department of English Language and Literature, 3187 Angell Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]