Rosanna Warren Writer's Reading

Join us for an evening reading by acclaimed poet Rosanna Warren. Warren is the author of Snow Day (1981), Each Leaf Shines Separate (1985), and Stained Glass (1993), for which she was awarded the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book of poems is Departure (2003).

Warren has also edited three anthologies of verse by prison inmates (In Time with Teresa Iverson, 1995; From This Distance with Meg Tyler, 1996; and Springshine with Meg Tyler, 1998). In addition, she has published a translation of Euripides’ Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully, 1995), edited and contributed to The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989), and edited two volumes of William Arrowsmith’s translation of the poems of Eugenio Montale (Cuttlefish Bones, 1992 and Satura, 1998).

Warren received the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin in 2006 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. In 2004 she received the 2004 Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award given once every six years to an outstanding poet. Earlier honors and awards include the “Discovery”/The Nation Award in poetry from the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA (1980), the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry (1993), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993), and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club (1995). In 1997 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Warren has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005. In the fall of 2000 she was theNew York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Creative Writing Program, Department of English.