Poetry Reading: Sandra Lim and Rosanna Warren

Rosanna Warren's book of poems Hindsight appeared in September 2025, from W. W. Norton. She is a professor emerita from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Her book of criticism, Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, came out in 2008 and other books of poems include Departure (2003) , Ghost in a Red Hat (2011), and So Forth (2020). In 1995, Oxford University Press published the verse translation of Euripides’ The Suppliant Women she composed with Stephen Scully, and her anthology of essays on translation, The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field, appeared in 1989. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the New England Poetry Club, among others. She 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, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Sandra Lim is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021). She is a recipient of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the Levis Reading Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in a range of journals, including The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Baffler, and The New Republic, among others. In 2023, she was named Distinguished University Professor at UMass Lowell, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Born in Seoul, Korea, she lives in Cambridge, MA. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsors: BUCH and CITL at CGS.