The Lamont Younger Poets Prize honors poems of exceptional promise written by preps and lowers at Phillips Exeter Academy. The prize commemorates the dedication of English instructor Rex McGuinn to student poetry at Exeter -- particularly his encouragement of student poets at the ninth and tenth grade levels. In such a spirit, the Lamont Poets Prize seeks to recognize promise as well as achievement in the early years of a student's developing craft.
Each year, the prize committee selects no more than four student poets, all of whom will be invited to read their poems at a Library event.