Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (2003–04) Louise Glück (pronounced Glick), will open this year’s Phillips Exeter Academy Library’s Lamont Poetry Series with a reading from her works in the Academy’s Assembly Hall, in the Academy building on Front Street, on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The reading is free, and a reception and book-signing will follow.

A longtime teacher of poetry at Williams College and now a resident of Cambridge, Mass., Glück began writing poetry as a girl growing up on Long Island. Persistence led her to author 10 books of poetry, which have earned numerous national prizes.

Her books include “Averno” (2006); “The Seven Ages” (2001); “Vita Nova” (1999), winner of the Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and 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; “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; and “The House On Marshland” (1975). She also has published a collection of essays, “Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry” (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. A chapbook, “October,” was published by Sarabande Books in 2004. Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the M.I.T. Anniversary Medal, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

For more information, call 603-777-3328.