Rosanna Warren, a Boston University professor, leading American poet, and daughter of Robert Penn Warren will read from her poems as this year's Phi Beta Kappa speaker at 3 p.m., Feb. 20 in Room 209 of Davis College.

The reading is free and open to the public.

Warren was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 and in 2004 received the academy's Award of Merit of Poetry, given once every six years to an outstanding poet.

She received the 92nd Street YMHA/YWHA The Nation Discovery Award in poetry in 1980, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award for Poetry in 1993, the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets for her book, Stained Glass in 1993, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993, and the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club in 1995.

She has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. From 1999 to 2005, Warren served as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In the fall of 2000 she was The New York Times resident in literature at the American Academy in Rome.

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