This Thursday, February 2, 2012, the Suffolk University Poetry Room presents a reading with two acclaimed contemporary writers: Tom Sleigh and Melissa Green.
TOM SLEIGH is the author of eight highly acclaimed books of poetry, including Army Cats (Graywolf, 2011), and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. He has also published a translation of Euripides' Herakles (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). He has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, a Guggenheim grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among many others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
MELISSA GREEN'S first book of poems, The Squanicook Eclogues (Norton), was awarded prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets; it is currently available as a reprint edition from the Boston-based Pen & Anvil Press. Fifty-Two, her second book of poems, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2007. Her work has been published in AGNI, Little Star, Charles River Journal, Fulcrum, Epiphany and Ibbetson Street. Ms. Green lives in Winthrop, MA. More about her work:
This reading, free and open to the public, will take begin at 7 PM in Sawyer Library, in the 3rd floor Poetry Room, at 73 Tremont Street Boston, MA.
TOM SLEIGH is the author of eight highly acclaimed books of poetry, including Army Cats (Graywolf, 2011), and Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. He has also published a translation of Euripides' Herakles (Oxford University Press, 2007), and a book of essays, Interview With a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). He has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the John Updike Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, a Guggenheim grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among many others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
MELISSA GREEN'S first book of poems, The Squanicook Eclogues (Norton), was awarded prizes from the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets; it is currently available as a reprint edition from the Boston-based Pen & Anvil Press. Fifty-Two, her second book of poems, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2007. Her work has been published in AGNI, Little Star, Charles River Journal, Fulcrum, Epiphany and Ibbetson Street. Ms. Green lives in Winthrop, MA. More about her work: This reading, free and open to the public, will take begin at 7 PM in Sawyer Library, in the 3rd floor Poetry Room, at 73 Tremont Street Boston, MA.
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