Literary Events

PEA English Instructor Matt W. Miller and Poet Ashley Capps to Read From Their Works
Selections from Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields and Cameo Diner: Poems will be among those heard  More...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | 7:30 p.m. | Assembly Hall | NEWS

Lamont Poet Patricia Smith to Read at Phillips Exeter Academy
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion features poems from Blood Dazzler, chronicling the devastation of Hurricane Katrina  More...

Academy Hosts Haley Lecture Guest Professor La Vinia Jennings
Winner of the 2008 Toni Morrison Society Book Prize Speaks to English Department Faculty, Community  More...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | 7:00 P.M. | Kaplanoff Periodicals Room, Library | NEWS

Charles W. Pratt '52 Reads from his Poetry
Will read selections from Still Here, winner of the 2007 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition  More...

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | Assembly Hall | NEWS

Lamont Poet Major Jackson to Read
This year's kickoff Lamont Poet is the author of two poetry collections: Hoops and Leaving Saturn  More...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 7:00 p.m. | Academy Library, Kaplanoff Periodicals Room | NEWS

2007 George Bennett Fellow Nam Le to Read from his Works
Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls Le's The Boat a "remarkable collection"  More...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | 7:30 p.m. | Assembly Hall, Academy Building | NEWS

Lamont Poet David Ferry
The second poet in the Academy Library's 2007-2008 Lamont Poetry Series reads from his poems and translations  More...

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 7:00 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall, Class of 1945 Library | NEWS

Storyteller Connie Regan-Blake
"Storytelling is alive and well, primarily because of Connie Regan-Blake," says Good Morning America. Come see for yourself  More...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | 7:30 p.m. | Assembly Hall, Academy Building | NEWS

Lamont Poet Dave Smith Reads From His Poetry
Smith is the first poet in the Academy Library’s Lamont Poetry Series this year  More...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 | 7:00 p.m. | Kaplanoff Periodicals Room, Academy Library | NEWS

Author Kevin King to read his poems
Recipient of the 2007 Fellowship in Poetry from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, to read  More...

Thursday, May 17, 2007 | 7:30 p.m. | Assembly Hall, Academy Building | NEWS

Lamont Poet Louise Glück
Louise Glück to be the next poet in the Academy Library’s Lamont Poetry Series this year  More...

Exeter Presents Veteran Actor, Frank Runyeon in Spiritual One-Man Productions
TV and film star will give student assembly talk entitled, “The Great American Treasure Hunt”  More...

Thursday, May 03, 2007 | 7:00 p.m. | Rockefeller Hall, Academy Library | NEWS

English Instructor and Poet Ralph Sneeden
PEA English Instructor, Poet Ralph Sneeden to read from new book of poetry, Evidence of the Journey  More...

Monday, April 23, 2007 | 8:00 p.m. | Kaplanoff Periodicals Room, Academy Library | NEWS

Shakespeare Scholar Stephen Greenblatt To Speak
Harvard University professor will give a public talk on "Shakespeare Beauty Marks"  More...

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | 7:00 p.m. | Academy Center Forum | NEWS

Staged dramatic reading of Speak Truth to Power; Voices from the Dark
Novel adaptation by playwright Ariel Dorfman; PEA students, faculty and staff make up cast  More...

Monday, April 09, 2007 - Monday, April 09, 2007 | 7 p.m. | Assembly Hall | NEWS

Harkness Fellow U.S. Poet Laureate, Donald Hall '47, to give public reading
Class of '47 alum began writing poetry as a prep at Exeter  More...

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | 7:00 PM | Assembly Hall | NEWS

Eamon Grennan - Lamont Poet
Eamon Grennan, the most recent poet in the Lamont Poetry Series, gave a reading on February 21 ...  More...

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | 4:00 P.M. | Rockefeller Hall | NEWS

A Christmas Carol
An annual event shortly before winter break is the reading of "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens.  More...