Published Pieces: Selections
“Portrait of My Father as a Snake,” Plume, Issue #147, November 2023
“The Story of Civilization,” Plume, Issue #147, November 2023
“Unexpected Magnitudes: On David Rivard’s Some of You Will Know” Arrowsmith Press, Volume 24, Fall 2023
“A Dictator Walks Into a Bar,” Tom Sleigh: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch], Best American Poetry blog, September 24, 2023
“Conversation,” Poetry Daily, August 30, 2022
“Old Man Swimming,” Plume, Issue #132, August 2022
"Three Ways Out of Homer and ‘The Poem of Force’: Christopher Logue, Alice Oswald, and Michael Longley” review essay, Consequence Forum, May 2022
“Gargle and Spit” a review of Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson, by Peter Dimock, Raritan, Raritan, Winter 2022, vol. 41 no. 3
”Tom Sleigh on ‘What I Can Say in 2021 About a Famine in 2011’” Poetry Society of America (“In Their Own Words” Feature), March 2022
“A Dictator Walks Into a Bar,” The Common (November 2021 Poetry Feature), Nov. 26, 2021
“Apology to My Daughter,” The Common, Oct. 25, 2021
“Widows: Andromache/Hektor, Achilles/Patroclus,” Consequence Forum, Winter 2021
“Patient as Monster,” The Blood Project, August 2021
The Headlight Review Interview Series: Tom Sleigh June 16, 2021
“False Teeth,” The Threepenny Review, Summer 2020
“Youth,” Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets, March 16, 2019
Interview with the Brooklyn Rail: Tom Sleigh with Alex Dueben March 2019
“Not-Her,” The Progressive Magazine, Jan. 24, 2019
“Stethoscope,” Poetry, Nov. 2018
”Playlist from House of Fact, House of Ruin,” Verse, March 2, 2018
“Tales of the Marvelous, News of the Strange,” published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, February 15, 2017
“The Fox,” The New Yorker, January 8, 2017
”Cricket” The Atlantic, December, 2016
“Second Sight,” first published in The Threepenny Review, reprinted from Station Zed, 2015
“Homage to Bashō,” Poetry, March 2015 (published under the title, “Six Trees and Two White Dogs…Doves?”)
“After Vallejo,” Poetry, May 2014
“To be Incarnational,” Essay, Poetry, Nov. 2013
“'A Violent Prone, Poor People Zone,’” Essay, Virginia Quarterly Review, photos by Jason Florio, Winter 2012
“Homage to Mary Hamilton,” The New Yorker, Dec. 12, 2010
“Army Cats,” The New Yorker, Feb. 2, 2009
“The Deeds,” Essay, Virgina Quarterly Review, Summer 2008
“Beirut Tank,” Poetry, June 2008
“Space Station,” first published in The Threepenny Review, Academy of American Poets Website, 2005
“New York American Spell,” from Far Side of the Earth, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003