This year's Lamont Poetry Series opens on Wednesday, November 5th with a reading by Lisa Russ Spaar. Lamont Poet readings begin at 7:30pm and are followed by a book signing. The readings are free and open to the public. With the Assembly Hall undergoing renovation, the reading will be held in Phillips Church and Multi-faith Center.
About Lisa Russ Spaar
Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of six acclaimed collections of poetry, including Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems (2021), Orexia (2017), Vanitas, Rough (2013), Satin Cash (2008), Blue Venus (2004), and Glass Town (1999); plus two poetry chapbooks, Blind Boy on Skates (1986) and Cellar (1983),and a novel, Paradise Close (2022).
She is also the author of The Hide-and-Seek Muse:Annotations of Contemporary Poetry (2013) — collection of poetry history and criticism — editor of four poetry anthologies, and she was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
Spaar has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors and awards. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where for many years she directed the MFA program.
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