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Rosanna Warren will share her poetry with the audience.

Rosanna Warren is the author of one chapbook of poems (Snow Day, Palaemon Press, 1981), and four collections of poems: Each Leaf Shines Seperate (Norton, 1984), Stained Glass (Norton, 1993), Departure (Norton, 2003), and Ghost in A Red Hat (Norton, 2011). Norton published her edition of William Arrowsmith’s translation of The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale 1925- 1977 in January 2012. Fables of the Self: Sudies in Lyric Poetry, a book of literary criticism, appeared from Norton in 2008. She edited and contributed to The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (Northeastern, 1989), and has edited three chapbooks of poetry by prisoners. She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Readers’ Digest Fund, among others. Stained Glass won the Lamont Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has won the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger Poets’ Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Award of Merit in Poetry from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 – 2005. She is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.