Poetry Reading: Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2014

Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She is an internationally recognized scholar in American and British literature, and she is also the author of six award-winning books of poetry. She was named as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her creative and scholarly works have been supported by the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as by the Guggenheim, Mellon, and Rockefeller Foundations.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society is honored to invite Professor Gregerson to our campus. For our first hour, she will be reading from her most recent book of poems, Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2014 (2015), and then we will open for questions and conversation about her work. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.

Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Department of English, the Department of Religious Studies, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education, and the Executive Vice Chancellor