Poet Rosanna Warren to Present Reading at January 16 MBL Falmouth Forum

WOODS HOLE, MA—Rosanna Warren will read poetry from her book, Ghost in a Red Hat, along with other works at the next MBL Falmouth Forum, Friday, January 16 at 7:30 PM in the MBL’s Lillie Auditorium, MBL Street in Woods Hole. A book signing and sale will follow the presentation. Sponsored by the MBL Associates, and generously supported this season by Sandy and David Bakalar, the event is free and open to the public.Warren is an acclaimed poet, whose research interests include translation, literary biography, literature and the visual arts, and relations between classical and modern literature. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, was published in 2008. Her books of poems include Ghost in a Red Hat (2011) and Departure (2003).

“Rosanna Warren lives in our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice," wrote poet Anthony Hecht, “but she inhabits almost as vividly a realm of classic purity; and in some of her best, most moving poems she dwells in both regions at once, and within, as it seems, the same breath. It is a beautiful miracle of bilocation.”

Warren is currently the Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the poetry editor of Daedalus and was the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. She has received 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.

Warren 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, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in painting and received an MA from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University.

An optional buffet dinner will precede the poetry reading at 6:00 PM in the MBL’s Swope Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole. Tickets are $30 (meal includes salad, pasta or potatoes, two entrees, wine, dessert, tax and gratuity) and must be purchased in advance at Eight Cousins Bookstore, Main Street, Falmouth or at the MBL Communications Office, 127 Water Street, Woods Hole. Dinner tickets are available until they sell out or until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, January 13. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at (508) 289-7423 or comm@mbl.edu.

The remainder of the 2014-2015 season is below. Visit mbl.edu/falmouth-forum for details and updated information.

February 6, 2015 (HERMAN T. EPSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE)
The Piano in the 21^st Century
Michael Mizrahi, concert pianist and teaching artist, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music

February 27, 2015
Out of the Blue: Nantucket and the Pacific World
Edward Melillo, Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College

March 13, 2015
The Economic Costs of Climate Change
Benjamin Jones, Faculty Director, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Northwestern University

—###—

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution and an affiliate of the University of Chicago.

The MBL Associates are a group of individuals and businesses that support the scientific mission of the MBL through their gifts to the Annual Fund. The Associates sponsor educational and research programs for the MBL and raise funds for special projects. In addition, they operate the MBL Gift Shop, located on Water Street in Woods Hole, the profits from which support scientific fellowships.