The winners of this year’s Lamont Younger Poets competition will read from their poems on Tuesday, April 29, in the Academy Library. The reading, at 7:00 p.m., will be held in the Kaplanoff Periodicals Room on the ground floor of the Library and will be followed by a reception. The reading is free and open to the public.

The recipients of the 2007 Lamont Younger Poets prize are Jackie Kay '10, Jacky Yoon '10, Lucy Yu '11, and Marina Zhou '10.

The Lamont Younger Poets Prize honors poems of exceptional promise written by juniors and lowers at Phillips Exeter Academy. The prize commemorates the dedication of English instructor Rex McGuinn to student poetry at Exeter — particularly his encouragement of student poets at the ninth- and tenth-grade levels. In such a spirit, the Lamont Younger Poets Prize seeks to recognize promise as well as achievement in the early years of a student's developing craft.

Learn more about the Lamont Younger Poets and past years’ winners.

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