Tom Sleigh & Gregory Djanikian

Sunday, July 20 | 3:00 PM

Back Roads Readings was created to bring esteemed poets and writers, both local and regional, to read their work to people in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Readings are followed by a book signing and reception, and are held in HCA’s event tent or theater, weather dependent.

TOM SLEIGH’s many books include the 2023 Paterson Poetry Prize winner, The
King’s Touch; House of Fact, House of Ruin; Station Zed, and Army Cats, all from
Graywolf Press. His most recent book of essays is The Land Between Two Rivers:
Writing in an Age of Refugees. His awards include a Guggenheim, two NEA
grants, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Updike
Award and Academy Award, both from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. His poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Threepenny Review,
Poetry, and other magazines. A Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, he lives
in Brooklyn, NY.

GREGORY DJANIKIAN was for many years the Director of Creative Writing at
the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2018. He has published seven
collections of poetry with Carnegie Mellon, the latest of which is Sojourners of the
In-Between (2020). His poems have appeared in many journals, including
Bennington Review, Crazy Horse, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Poetry
International, Raleigh Review, and in many anthologies. Nostalgia for the Future:
New and Collected 1984-2023 was published in April of this year by Green Writers
Press. He lives in Narberth, PA with his wife, the artist Alysa Bennett.