Poet Tom Sleigh to Give Reading as Part of the Visiting Writers Series

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, poet Tom Sleigh will give a reading on Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cantor Art Gallery (O'Kane Hall). The event is free and open to the public.

Tom Sleigh is the author of five books of poetry: After One (1983), which won the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Prize; The Waking (l990), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Chain (l996); The Dreamhouse (1999), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and, most recently, Far Side of the Earth (2004). His honors include an Individual Writers’ Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches at Dartmouth College.