Lamont Poet Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips, author of The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004), National Book Award finalist, read his poetry in the Assembly Hall on April 20, 2005, as part of the Library’s Lamont Poetry Series.

Phillips’s other books include:  Pastoral (2000); From the Devotions (1998), a finalist for the National Book Award; Cortege (1995), a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Poetry; The Tether (2001); Rock Harbor (2002); and In the Blood (1992), winner of the Morse Poetry Prize. Since his reading at the Academy, he has also published Riding Westward (2006) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems (2007).

He has received awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and The Academy of American Poets.  His poems, essays and translations have appeared in such journals as The Nation, The Paris Review and The Yale Review, as well as in several anthologies.

Born in 1959, Phillips has taught at Harvard University, Boston University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and Washington University, St. Louis, where he is associate professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies. In 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, given in memory of James Merrill.

The Lamont Poetry Series, endowed in 1982 by Corliss Lamont, class of 1920, continues to bring remarkable poets to Exeter and remains a testimony to Mr. Lamont, who died in 1995.