Rosanna Warren, poet and translator, will give a reading as part of the Working Writers Series on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, sponsored by the College’s Creative Writing Program, is free and open to the public.
Warren is the author of five books of poetry: Snow Day (1981), Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984), Stained Glass (1993), Departure (2003), and most recently The Ghost in the Red Hat (2011). She has also published volumes of literary criticism and translation.
Warren’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and media outlets including the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Slate.
Her poetry has earned her numerous awards, including the Lamont Poetry Prize for the best second volume by an American poet and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two poems in The Ghost in a Red Hat won Pushcart Prizes.
Warren teaches at Boston University, where she recently received the Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching.
The 2011-12 Working Writers Series will conclude the fall semester with the following panel:
- Thursday, Dec. 8 – Steve Almond, author of both fiction and creative nonfiction, and Betsey Lerner, a poet, nonfiction writer, editor, and literary agent, in a panel on “A Life in Letters,” moderated by Leah Hager Cohen, the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at Holy Cross
The Working Writers Series was formerly known as the Visiting Writers Series.
