Portrait of Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh

Tom Sleigh’s books include House of Fact, House of Ruin (Graywolf, 2018); Station Zed (Graywolf, 2015); Army Cats (Graywolf, 2011), which won the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. His most recent book of essays, The Land between Two Rivsers: Writing in an Age of Refugees (Graywolf, 2018), recounts his time as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa. He has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the Lila Wallace Fund, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Berlin, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and is a contributing editor of AGNI. For more, visit www.tomsleigh.com. (updated 3/2020)

Sleigh’s AGNI poem “After Herodotus” won a Pushcart Prize and was reprinted in the 2006 anthology. “At the Pool” was chosen for The Best American Poetry 2009.

An Interview with Tom Sleigh” by Allegra Wong also appears at AGNI Online. Sleigh’s second book, Waking, was reviewed in AGNI 34 by Joseph Lease. His collection The Chain was reviewed in AGNI 43 by Susan Mitchell. His collection The Dreamhouse was reviewed in AGNI 52 by Sven Birkerts.

AGNI has published the following work:

Party at Marquis de Sade’s Place

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009

Essay by Tom Sleigh

A Promise

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Claw

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Kafka Variations

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

For Benny Andrews (poem)

Art Feature by Tom Sleigh

At the Pool

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

After Herodotus

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Ziggurat

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

One Person in Three Substances, or Three Substances in One Person?

Essay by Tom Sleigh

Drafts of “Marriage”

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

The Denial

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Crossing the Border

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

The Distance Between

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Ending

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Afterwords

Poetry by Tom Sleigh

Ay, Que Vida

Essay by Tom Sleigh

AGNI has published the following translations:

Amores III, ix

Poetry by Ovid Translated by Tom Sleigh

Amores II, vi

Poetry by Ovid Translated by Tom Sleigh

from Amores I, xiii

Poetry by Ovid Translated by Tom Sleigh

from Heracles: To the Muses

Poetry by Euripides Translated from the ancient Greek by Tom Sleigh
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