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Tom Sleigh is our program director and senior poet. As you scroll down the page you’ll be reminded of his extraordinary body of work. Click on the titles and browse a little, read some reviews. Our colleague has won the 2008 Kingsley Tufts Award (worth $100,000), the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize (2009), an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace Fund, a Guggenheim grant, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Tom will teach you at least once a semester. You’ll never forget how smart he is, but he is so accessible you might need to remind yourself that you actually know the guy who wrote these books, that this is the Tom Sleigh who made that translation of Euripides' Herakles. Tom comes to Hunter after a distinguished teaching career at such universities as Dartmouth College, the University of Iowa, UC-Berkely, Johns Hopkins University, and NYU. If you want to know what he’s like as a person, come and meet him at our Open House. In the meantime, you can read excerpts of an interview with Tom in Agni, reviews of his books here, his extended professional bio here and a sample of his work on the Academy of American Poets website, which includes Tom’s recent work in Poetry, Threepenny, and Colorado Review, and two essays from his 2006 book, Interview With a Ghost. You can also read two of his poems that recently appeared in the New Yorker: "Army Cats" and "Hunter-Gatherer." There's a critique of "Army Cats" here. Here's another poem by Tom, "Fenix," published in the American Poetry Review. And you can listen to an interview with Tom on WKCR here.
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