Tom Sleigh

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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, worth $100,000,[1] an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[1] The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America,[1] and a Guggenheim Foundation grant.[1] He currently serves as director of Hunter College's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Creative Writing. He is the recipient of the Anna-Maria Kellen Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin
for Fall 2011.

Life

Tom Sleigh was born in

UC-Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and serves as director of the Hunter College Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, where he also teaches poetry writing.[1]

Artistic influences

In an interview published in the literary journal AGNI, Sleigh lists his poetic influences:

I'd have to say that

Baudelaire for his music and intense scrutiny and affection for street life; and Bishop and Lowell for their immersion in the physical world, would be my fathers and mothers.[2]

Published works

Poetry collections
  • House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf Press, 2017)
  • Station Zed (Graywolf Press, 2015)
  • Army Cats (Graywolf Press, 2011)
  • Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007)
  • Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003)
  • The Dreamhouse (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
  • The Chain (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
  • Waking (University of Chicago Press, 1990)
  • After One (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)
Prose works
Dramatic works
  • Ice Trucker Pilgrimage, a multi-media opera (presented at San Francisco Film Festival 2006)
  • The Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel, or an Old-Fashioned Love Story (produced in 2004, New York Fringe Theater Festival)
  • Rubber (performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Raw Space Theater, New York City, 2002; winner of "Best of the Fest" award and a 2003 OOBR Award from the Off Off Broadway Review)[2]
  • Barbarosa (staged reading at Boston University's Playwright's Theater, 1998)
  • Ahab's Wife (performed at Loeb's ART Institute, Boston, 1997; and Jim Henson Foundation's International Festival of Puppet Theater, New York City, 1998)
Translations
  • Herakles by Euripides (Oxford University Press USA, 2000)

Honors and awards

  • Kingsley Tufts Award (2008), for Space Walk [4]
  • Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [1]
  • The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America [1]
  • Guggenheim Foundation Grant [1]
  • Ingram Merill Foundation Grant [1]
  • Two National Endowment for the Arts grants [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ploughshares, the literary journal
  2. ^ a b c d AGNI Online: Interview with Tom Sleigh by Allegra Wong
  3. ^ a b Dartmouth News - Dartmouth professor Thomas Sleigh nominated for L.A. Times book prize - 03/24/00
  4. ^ Poet Tom Sleigh Walks Away With $100,000 | Poets & Writers

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