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Jen DeGregorio

Jen DeGregorio
Jen DeGregorio is associate editor at Poets & Writers. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Muzzle, PANK, Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Poetry Review, Third Coast, Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ), and other journals, as well as in news outlets such as The Times-Picayune, The Daily Record, The Baltimore Sun, U.S. News and World Report, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from Binghamton University and an MFA in creative writing from Hunter College and has taught courses in writing, literature, and arts appreciation at Binghamton, Hunter, and other universities in New York and New Jersey. You can find her on Twitter at @jendegs27.


Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo
June 6, 2022  By Jen DeGregorio
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An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000…
But Was it Stolen?

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Curious Case of a Great Poet’s Hair
September 16, 2021  By Jen DeGregorio
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