We are pleased to welcome Linda Gregerson to the Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors. Her books of poetry include The Selvage (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012); Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), a finalist for the National Book Award; and Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She is also the author of literary criticism, including Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2001). Read her poems “Slight Tremor,” “An Arbor,” and listen to her read “Narrow Flame.”
Gregerson will read, give a craft talk, and teach a workshop at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Florida on January 19-24, 2015.