The Lamont Fund, established in 1982 by Corliss Lamont ’20, supports the Library’s Lamont Poetry Series. Two poets are invited each year to give readings of their poetry and to attend English classes. Each visiting poet is photographed and asked to present the library with a manuscript poem. These are framed and hung in the office on the fourth floor of the library. The collection of framed manuscript poems includes the work of such major poets as Jorge Luis Borges, Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Brodsky and Allen Ginsberg.


poem by Joseph Brodsky