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Tom's poems frequently appear in The New Yorker and other publications. His "A Short History of Communism and the Enigma of Surplus Value," for example, was published in the Oct. 8, 2012, issue of the New Yorker.
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 John Updike Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award (worth $100,000), the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, the Virginia Quarterly Review's Emily Clark Balch Prize, 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 has been elected to the rank of Distinguished Professor, the Hunter's highest ranking faculty title. He 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 three of his poems that recently appeared in the New Yorker: "Army Cats," "Hunter-Gatherer," and "Homage to Mary Hamilton." 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. And here's Tom's Facebook page. And here are a lecture and reading Tom gave at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 2011 (clicking that link will open iTunes on your computer, assuming you have it installed). Also, here's a piece Tom published in the online journal Blackbird, and here's a travel essay that he published in Virginia Quarterly Review and that was included in the Best American Travel Essays anthology, and here's another VQR travel essay, this one on Somali Refugee Camps. Here's a Tom's poem Stone God and Goddess in an Ark, which appeared on Poem-A-Day. Here's a review of Army Cats in Tikkun magazine, and here's Tom's poem Songs for the End of the World, in the same publication, and here's another review in the Kenyon Review. Tom also was selected for inclusion in Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition. Here's an essay by Tom in the L.A. Review of Books. Here's an interview with Tom on Poetry magazine's podcast. Recently, he has been interviewed in 32 Poems and in Blackbird, which also published his poems "Station Zed" and "KM4"; also, Poetry published seven of his new poems, one of which, "The Animals in the Zoo Don't Seem Worried," got picked up by NPR. Here are three elegies by Tom. Here's a panel discussion he did on the topic of war and witnessing, and here's a link to Tom Sleigh reading at the Ohio University Spring Literary Festival. Here's Tom with Paul Muldoon on The New Yorker's podcast. Tom's 2018 book Between Two Rivers was written up in The Library Journal.
Station Zed
(Greywolf Press, 2015) |
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Army Cats
(Greywolf Press, 2011) |
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Space Walk
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007) |
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Interview With a Ghost : Essays
(Graywolf Press, 2006)
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Far Side of the Earth
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003) |
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Herakles by Euripdes
Translated by: Tom Sleigh
(Oxford University Press, USA, 2000) |
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The Dreamhouse
(University of Chicago Press, 1999) |
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The Chain
(University of Chicago Press, 1996) |
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Waking
(University of Chicago Press, 1990) |
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After One
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983) |
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