Season 4, Episode 1: Tom Sleigh

In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh about Israel and making sense of the region while the 10/7 war rages on. Sleigh's most recent essay collection is The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees. His mid-career turn to war journalism has garnered Sleigh a new audience while making him one America’s essential poets for understanding our world today. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College. Our conversation includes discussion of Tom's forthcoming New and Selected Poems featuring the memorable long poem "Widows" as well as his memoir Rosie (about assisting his mother with her suicide).