Rosanna Warren's poetry “break[s] one's heart even as it makes one think” (Ploughshares). Her volumes include Ghost in a Red Hat, Departure, a translation of Euripides's Suppliant Women, and a book of criticism. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA.