Tom Sleigh and Phillis Levin: ALSCW Conversation Series
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Oct 01, 2013 from 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm |
| Where | Martin E. Segal Theater CUNY Graduate Center |
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Join The Center for the Humanities for a reading of new work by Tom Sleigh, followed by a conversation with poet Phillis Levin to explore some of the questions the work raises. For the past seven years, Tom Sleigh has been leading a double life as a long form journalist/essayist, writing about refugees in the wakes of two recent wars. Those experiences have worked themselves into his poemsbut at an oblique angle. In what ways are humor and irreverence more or less effective than grim earnestness? What is the difference between exploring a political emotion and a political conviction and which one is the job of the poet? Both writers are part of The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, an organization for literary activity and advocacy.
Free and open to the public. All events take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave btwn 34th & 35th. The building and the venues are fully accessible. For more information please visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/ or call 212.817.2005 or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu
Cosponsored by The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers.