Tom Sleigh Poetry Reading
Modern Masters Reading Series
Thursday, February 24th, 6pm
4th Floor Program Room

Over the last decade, Sleigh has also worked as a long-form journalist in the Middle East and Africa, writing mainly on refugee issues. His work has taken him to Iraq, Syria, Libya, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as Kenya and Somalia. A book of these essays The Land Between Two Rivers: Poetry in an Age of Refugees (2018) was published simultaneously with a companion book of poems, House of Fact, House of Ruin (2018). Sleigh is Distinguished Professor in the MFA program of Hunter College.
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