Rosanna Warren

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Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 1953) is an American poet and scholar.

[edit] Biography

Warren was born in Fairfield, Connecticut to novelist, literary critic and Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and writer Eleanor Clark. She graduated from Yale University in 1976 with a degree in painting, and then in 1980 received an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and a University Professor at Boston University. She is married and has two children.

She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Pushcart Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in Poetry, and the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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  • Poetry
    • Departure (2003)
    • Stained Glass (1993)
    • Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984)
    • Snow Day (1981)
  • Translations

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