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Poetry Reading at La Grua Center: Rosanna Warren

Friends of Fellow Series: Rosanna Warren

Award winning author and poet Rosanna Warren, will be reading from her own work including her most recent collection - Ghost in a Red Hat (Norton Press, 2011).
Warren, is a friend of James Merrill Fellow Peter Filkins. Her reading is the second in the Merrill House Friend of the Fellow Series.
The evening is sponsored jointly by the James Merrill House Committee and the La Grua Center.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.

Rosanna Warren is the author of one chapterbook of poems (SNOW DAY, Palaemon Press, 1981), and four collections of poems: EACH LEAF SHINES SEPARATE (Norton, 1984), STAINED GLASS (Norton, 1993), DEPARTURE (Norton, 2003), and GHOST IN A RED HAT (Norton, 2011). Norton published her edition of William Arrowsmith's translation of THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EUGENIO MONTALE 1925- 1977 in January 2012. FABLES OF THE SELF: STUDIES IN LYRIC POETRY, a book of literary criticism, appeared from Norton in 2008. She
edited and contributed to THE ART OF TRANSLATION: VOICES FROM THE FIELD (Northeastern, 1989), and has edited three chapbooks of poetry by prisoners. She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Readers' Digest Fund, among others. STAINED GLASS won the Lamont Poetry Award from the Academy of American Poets. She has won the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger Poets' Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Award of Merit in Poetry from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999 - 2005. She teaches Comparative Literature at Boston University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

James Merrill Writers-in-Residence:
Peter Filkins is the author of four books of poems, What She Knew, After Homer, Augustine's Vision, and the forthcoming The View We're Granted. The recipient of
a Stover Award in Poetry and the New American Press Chapbook Award, he has also received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and held residencies
at Yaddo, Millay, the MacDowell Colony, and the American Academy in Berlin. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, and Southwest Review. He is also the
translator of the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken, and H.G. Adler's novels The Journey and Panorama. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock.

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