Louise Glück (pronounced “glick”), Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (2003-2004), will be the next poet in the Academy Library’s Lamont Poetry Series this year.  She will read from her poetry on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Assembly Hall, located on the second floor of the Academy Building on Front Street in Exeter.

Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker magazine’s Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for non-fiction. A chapbook, October, was published by Saraband Books in 2003. Glück’s tenth book of poetry is Averno (2006). Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986),  M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Louise Glück taught at Williams College for 20 years and is currently Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University; she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1999 she was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003 she was named as the new judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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.

For further information, please contact Academy Librarian Jacquelyn Thomas at (603) 777-3328.