Rosanna Warren, a renowned poet and critic and daughter of writers Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, will visit Vanderbilt University this month as the guest of the Warren Center, named for her father.
Warren, University Professor, Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, and professor of English and modern foreign languages and literatures at Boston University, will present this year’s Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Moore Room on the second floor of the Vanderbilt Law School. The title of the lecture is “Poems and Poem-talk: A poetry reading and informal chat with Rosanna Warren.”
Warren is the author most recently of a book of literary criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry. Her books of poetry include eSnow Day, Each Leaf Shines Separate, Stained Glass and Departure. Warren has received several awards and honors for her work, including the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, the “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Most recently, she was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Warren served as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. In 1997, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture Series was established in 1994 through the endowment of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Nash Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. George D. Renfro, all of Asheville, N.C. The lecture honors Harry C. Howard Jr. (B.A. 1951) and allows the Warren Center to bring an outstanding scholar to Vanderbilt annually to deliver a lecture on a significant topic in the humanities. For more information about the lecture, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/harry.htm.
The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities promotes interdisciplinary research and study in the humanities, social sciences, and, when appropriate, natural sciences. Members of the Vanderbilt community representing a wide variety of specializations take part in the Warren Center’s programs. The work of the Warren Center strengthens the place of the humanities not only at Vanderbilt University but also within the larger society in which we live. For more information about the Warren Center, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/center.htm.
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