EXETER — Naomi Shihab Nye — poet/author, editor, teacher and musical performance artist — will read from her work in Phillips Exeter Academy Library’s Lamont Poetry Program for 2009–2010 tonight starting at 7:30.

The reading will be held in the assembly hall, located on the second floor of the Academy Building on Front Street. The event is free and open to the public.

Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow (Library of Congress). Nye’s work has been presented on National Public Radio on “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac.” She has been featured on two PBS poetry specials: “The Language of Life with Bill Moyers” and “The United States of Poetry,” and also appeared on “NOW with Bill Moyers.”

Much of her work draws on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity found in southwest Texas, and experiences of traveling throughout several continents around the world, focusing on the human connection and shared humanity among all people.

Nye lives in San Antonio, Texas.

For more information, call academy librarian Jacquelyn H. Thomas at 777-3328 or visit the library’s events page. For directions to Phillips Exeter, call 777-4330.