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| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, scholar |
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Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 27, 1953) is an American poet and scholar.
Rosanna Warren | |
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| Born | July 27, 1953 |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, scholar |
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Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 27, 1953) is an American poet and scholar.
Warren is the daughter of poet, novelist, literary critic and Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and writer Eleanor Clark. She graduated from Yale University, where she was a member of Manuscript Society, in 1976, with a degree in painting, and then in 1980 received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Until July 2012 she was the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and a University Professor at Boston University.
Warren's first collection of poetry, Each Leaf Shines Separate (1984), received generally favorable notice in a review in The New York Times . Her next collection, Stained Glass, won the Lamont Poetry Prize for the best second volume published in the U. S. in 1993; in his review, Jonathan Aaron described these poems "tough-minded, beautifully crafted meditations". [1] Warren was awarded the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University in 2004. [2] She held a Lannan Foundation Marfa residency in 2005. [3]
In the 2008–09 academic year, Warren was a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. [4] Warren is currently the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor Emerita in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
On December 21, 1981, Warren married Stephen Scully, [5] but is now divorced.[ citation needed ] She has two daughters. Her younger daughter, Chiara Scully, graduated from Yale University and is a psychiatric social worker whose poetry has been published in the Seneca Review [ citation needed ][ relevant? ] and The New Republic . Her elder daughter, Katherine Scully Porter, also graduated from Yale University and is a lawyer.[ citation needed ] Warren has two grandchildren, Adelaide and Lachlan Porter.
Warren's other awards include several Pushcart Prizes, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in Poetry, the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize (1993), the Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry (2011), a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2022, the David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize from Suffolk University. [6] In 1990 she served as poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Philosophical Society, [7] and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. [8] In spring of 2006 she received a Berlin Prize to fund half a year of study and work at the American Academy in Berlin. [9]
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| A New Year | 2023 | "A New Year". The New Yorker. January 30, 2023. | |
| In a Strange Land | 2023 | "In a Strange Land". The Yale Review. January 11, 2023. | |
| Small Dead Snake | 2022 | "Small Dead Snake". The Threepenny Review. Summer 2022. p. 16. | |
| Soseki's Shrine | 2022 | "Soseki's Shrine". The Kenyon Review. May–June 2022. | |
| Inscription | 2022 | "Inscription". The Kenyon Review. May–June 2022. | |
| Number Theory | 2021 | "Number Theory". The New Yorker. March 8, 2021. | |
| From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine | 2021 | "From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine". Poetry Foundation. May 30, 2021. | |
| Intimate Letters | 2021 | "Intimate Letters". Poetry Foundation. May 30, 2021. | |
| Interior at Petworth: From Turner | 2021 | "Interior at Petworth: From Turner". Poetry Foundation. May 30, 2021. | |
| For Chiara | 2019 | "For Chiara". The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 2. March 4, 2019. p. 50. | |
| Cotillion Photo | 2016 | "Cotillion Photo". The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 46. February 1, 2016. p. 34. | |
| The Twelfth Day | 2009 | "The Twelfth Day". Daedalus . 138 (1): 68–70. Winter 2009. doi: 10.1162/daed.2009.138.1.68 . S2CID 57562548. | |
| Romanesque | 2008 | "Romanesque". The New Yorker. October 6, 2008. | |
| A Kosmos | 2007 | "A Kosmos". The New Yorker. November 5, 2007. | |
| Palaces | 2007 | "Palaces". Threepenny Review. Winter 2007. | |
| For Trakl | 2003 | "For Trakl". AGNI. 2003. | |
| Lake | 2002 | "Lake". Slate. November 12, 2002. | |
| Invitation au Voyage: Baltimore | 2002 | "Invitation au Voyage: Baltimore". AGNI. 2002. |
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