Watch: “Poems and Poem-talk” with Rosanna Warren

Watch video of an Oct. 29 lecture, “Poems and Poem-talk: A poetry reading and informal chat with Rosanna Warren.”

Rosanna Warren, a renowned poet and critic and daughter of writers Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, visits Vanderbilt University 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 present this year’s Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture.

The Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture Series was established in1994 through the endowment of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Nash, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. George D. Renfro, all of Asheville, North Carolina. 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.

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