Grace Schulman & Tom SleighThursday, April 19
Peruggi Room,
Marymount Manhattan College
221 East 71st Street,
New York City
7:00 p.m.
FREE
Grace Schulman's fifth collection, The Broken String (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), calls back to virtuoso violinist Itzhak Perlman’s resolution to perform despite a missing string. Schulman is the recipient of numerous awards including the Aiken-Taylor Award, the Delmore Schwartz Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the poetry editor of the Nation and a former director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. She teaches at Baruch College in New York City.Tom Sleigh is the author of Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), four other books of poetry and a collection of essays, Interview With A Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006). Robert Pinsky, writing in The Washington Post, recently called Sleigh's poem "The Hole" an "extraordinary" example of how poetry "can crystallize and hold up for inspection forces that govern life in general." Sleigh teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College.
Co-sponsored by Houghton Mifflin and Marymount Manhattan College.
Co-sponsored by Houghton Mifflin and Marymount Manhattan College.
