The New Salon series brings writers into an intimate setting to discuss the implications of their work and craft.
Tom Sleigh's most recent collections of poetry include Station Zed (Graywolf Press, 2015), 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. He has also published a translation of Euripides's Herakles and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Sleigh's honors include an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many others.
Co-sponsored by The Poetry Society of America and Tulane University
Admission is free. Reception to follow.
Tulane University
Stone Auditorium
Woldenberg Art Center
