Michael Van Walleghen (1938 — May 20, 2022) was an American poet.
He has also received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, first prize in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, and several grants from the Illinois Arts Council.
Before retirement he was a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was the first director of the MFA in Creative Writing program created there in 2003.
Van Walleghen began his academic career at Wichita State University.
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