About Tom Sleigh and Five Points

Today's poem is "World Cup"

from Five Points

Tom Sleigh's books include After One, winner of the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Prize and Space Walk, which received the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award in 2008. His other awards and honors include the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, the Updike Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and others. His new book, Army Cats, appeared this May from Graywolf Press.
Books by Tom Sleigh:

Other poems on the web by Tom Sleigh:
Six poems
Six poems
Twenty-three poems
"Paradoxes (an excerpt)"
"Buoyancy"
"Fenix"
"The Hole"
Four poems
Two poems
Tom Sleigh According to Wikipedia.
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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
February 7, 2011: "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010: "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009: "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009: "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009: "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008: "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008: "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008: "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008: "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007: "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007: "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007: "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006: "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005: "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005: "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005: "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005: "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005: "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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