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Spencer Reece ’85

The Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference announced the winners of the 2003 Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes, awarded to aid and encourage writers seeking publication of their first books. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück chose The Clerk's Tale by Spencer Reece '85 for the poetry prize. Reece, who received a master's in English Renaissance poetry from the University of York in England, as well as a master's degree in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, says his book, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin in April 2004, was inspired by his undergraduate class on Chaucer taught by the late Professor Hope Weissman. The title poem for his upcoming book appeared in the June 16 & 23, 2003, issue of the New Yorker.
The Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference announced the winners of the 2003 Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes, awarded to aid and encourage writers seeking publication of their first books. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück chose The Clerk’s Tale by Spencer Reece ’85 for the poetry prize. Reece, who received a master’s in English Renaissance poetry from the University of York in England, as well as a master’s degree in theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, says his book, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin in April 2004, was inspired by his undergraduate class on Chaucer taught by the late Professor Hope Weissman. The title poem for his upcoming book appeared in the June 16 & 23, 2003, issue of the New Yorker.