Exeter, NH (March 16, 2006)  On Wednesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m., poet and Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams will read from his works as part of this year’s Lamont Poetry Series at Phillips Exeter Academy. The reading will take place inside the Assembly Hall, located on the second floor of the Academy Building on Front Street in Exeter. This event is free and open to the public.

Born in Newark, NJ, in 1936, C.K. Williams was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), which won the National Book Award in 2003; Repair (1999), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood  (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published five works of translation: Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); and The Bacchae of Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards and honors are: an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives a part of each year in Paris.

For further information, contact Academy Librarian Jacquelyn H. Thomas at (603) 777-3328. A complete listing of upcoming events is available on the Phillips Exeter Academy public events line at (603) 777-4309 and on our website at www.exeter.edu. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call (603) 777-4330.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and 25 foreign countries

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