EPISODE · Mar 28, 2016 · 42 MIN
AK Smith Reading Series: Tom Sleigh
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Tom Sleigh attended the California Institute of the Arts and Evergreen State College, and earned an MA from Johns Hopkins University. Sleigh is the author of several books of poetry; his most recent collections include Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011), winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. His latest book, Station Zed, was published by Graywolf Press in 2015. He has also published a translation of Euripides’s Herakles and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Widely anthologized, his poems and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Threepenny, The Village Voice, and other literary magazines, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2013), The Best American Poetry, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Pushcart Anthology.
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Tom Sleigh attended the California Institute of the Arts and Evergreen State College, and earned an MA from Johns Hopkins University. Sleigh is the author of several books of poetry; his most recent collections include Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011), winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. His latest book, Station Zed, was published by Graywolf Press in 2015. He has also published a translation of Euripides’s Herakles and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Widely anthologized, his poems and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Threepenny, The Village Voice, and other literary magazines, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2013), The Best American Poetry, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Pushcart Anthology.
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