ANDOVER, Mass. —Award-winning poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly will read her poetry at 7 p.m. Friday, May 6, in Kemper Auditorium, 5 Chapel Ave., on the Phillips Academy campus. This event, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Sandra Isham Vreeland Fund and the Phillips Academy English department.

A professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Kelly is the author of The Orchard (2004), nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Song (1995), a Lamont Poetry selection of The Academy of American Poets; and To The Place of Trumpets, selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems have appeared in many periodicals and were chosen for the 1993 and 1994 volumes of The Best American Poetry. According to a review in The New York Times Book Review, “To the hills and gardens where earlier poets found calm, The Orchard brings a shocked, shocking and unfamiliar ferocity. Kelly’s visions and elegies portray her as the only live human being in a sanguinary landscape of dogs, deer, mythical monsters, cracked statuary and children’s graves.”

Kelly also will be visiting English classes earlier in the day. For more information about the poetry reading, call the English department at 978-749-4185.