16th Annual Robert Penn Warren
Symposium Set For April 27

March 28, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - The 16th Annual Robert Penn Warren Symposium will feature remarks from noted Warren bibliographer James A. Grimshaw Jr. The symposium is April 27 at Western Kentucky University.

Grimshaw, regents professor of literature and language at Texas A & M University at Commerce, will speak on "Collecting Robert Penn Warren: Confessions of an Errant Bibliographer."

Professor Grimshaw's collection, considered the largest private Warren collection in the world, was recently acquired by Western's Robert Penn Warren Center.

The lecture, which begins at 2 p.m. in room 103 of the Garrett Conference Center, will be followed by a reception in Cherry Hall and a tour of the Warren Library. The events are free and open to the public.

Warren, a Kentucky native, won three Pulitzer Prizes for literature and poetry. He was named the first poet laureate in the United States in 1986.

There will be a fundraising lunch at 12:30 p.m. in the Kentucky Building. Tickets are $30 and are available from Mary Ellen Miller in the English Department at 745-5721 or mary.miller@wku.edu.

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