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Rosanna Warren

b. 1953
http://www.rosannawarren.com/
Headshot of poet Rosanna Warren outdoors.
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Rosanna Warren was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, to a pair of writers: Robert Penn Warren, a major poet and novelist, and Eleanor Clark, a prize-winning author of criticism, fiction, and travel books. She earned her BA in painting from Yale University and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Warren is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She has also taught at Vanderbilt University and Boston University, and in several medium security prisons.

Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008. Her most recent books of poems are Departure (2003) and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). A contributor and editor for many volumes of translation, she translated Euripides’s Suppliant Women (1995), with Stephen Scully, and edited a volume on The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (1989).

She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 to 2005, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. From 2008 to 2009, she was a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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WRITINGS:

  • The Joey Story (fiction), Random House (New York, NY), 1963.
  • Snow Day (poems), Palaemon Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1981.
  • Each Leaf Shines Separate (poems), Norton (New York, NY), 1984.
  • (Editor and contributor) The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA), 1989.
  • Stained Glass (poems), Norton (New York, NY), 1993.
  • (Editor) Eugenio Montale, Cuttlefish Bones, translated by William Arrowsmith, Norton (New York, NY), 1993.
  • (Cotranslator with Stephen Scully) Euripides: Suppliant Women, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • (Editor) Eugenio Montale, Satura: 1962-1970, Norton (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Departure (poems), Norton (New York, NY), 2003.
  • Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry (literary criticism), Norton (New York, NY), 2008.
  • Ghost in a Red Hat (poems), Norton (New York, NY), 2011.
  • (Editor) The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale: 1925-1977, translated by William Arrowsmith, Norton (New York, NY), 2012.
  • (Editor) Poetic Diaries 1971 and 1972, translated by William Arrowsmith, Norton (New York, NY), 2012.
  • (Editor) Poetic Notebook 1974 -1977, translated by William Arrowsmith, Norton (New York, NY), 2012.
  • Earthworks (poems), American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA), 2016.

Coeditor, with Meg Tyler, of From this Distance: Poetry from Prison, 1997. Work represented in anthologies, including The Morrow Anthology of Contemporary Verse, Morrow, 1984; The Direction of Poetry, Houghton, 1988; The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Norton, 1988; and The Best American Poetry of 1992, edited by Charles Simic and David Lehman, Scribner, 1992. Contributor to periodicals, including Agni Review, American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Chicago Review, Georgia Review, Nation, New Yorker, New York Times, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, andWashington Post. Poetry consultant and contributing editor, Partisan Review, 1985—.