Acclaimed Irish poet Eamon Grennan was the winter poet in the Academy Library's Lamont Poetry Series, reading on Wednesday, February 21, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.

Born in Dublin in 1941 and educated at University College Dublin, where he studied English and Italian, and at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in English, Mr. Grennan has established himself as a preeminent voice in a generation of Irish poets that includes Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland.

His collections of poetry include The Quick of It (2005); Renvyle, Winter (2003); Still Life with Waterfall (2002), winner of the Lenore Marshall Award; Selected & New Poems (2000); Relations: New & Selected Poems (1998); So It Goes (1995); As If It Matters (1992); What Light There Is and Other Poems (1989); What Light There Is (1987); and Wildly for Days (1983).

His Leopardi: Selected Poems (1997) won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and he has published a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1999).

Mr. Grennan's poems appear regularly in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The New Yorker, The Nation, Threepenny Review, and The New Republic.

As well as a number of Pushcart Prizes, he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Grennan teaches at Vassar College, where he is the Dexter M. Ferry Jr., Professor of English. He divides his time between Poughkeepsie, NY, and the West of Ireland.

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 a list of the poets who have come to the Academy, see the page.