Poet to Give Free Reading at Bryn Mawr College

Poet, dramatist and essayist Tom Sleigh will give a free reading of his work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, in the Goodhart Music Room, Goodhart Hall, .

The reading is part of Bryn Mawr's Creative Writing Program Reading Series. All readings in the series are free and open to the public.

Sleigh is the author of a book of nonfiction, Interview with a Ghost, and seven books of verse, including, most recently, Army Cats. Seamus Heaney says his poetry “refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.”

Sleigh has been the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the inaugural John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

Special thanks to Matt Gray at Bryn Mawr College for providing this story.