The Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading Series. Introduced by Robert Pinsky. Reading followed by book signing and reception. TOM SLEIGH’s many books include Station Zed, Army Cats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk, which received the Kingsley Tufts Award. In addition, Far Side of the Earth won an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Dreamhouse was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award, and The Chain was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize. He's also received the PSA's Shelley Prize, a Guggenheim, two NEAs, and many other awards, and he has two books forthcoming in Feb. 2018 from Graywolf Press, The Land Between Two Rivers: Poetry in an Age of Refugees, a book of essays; and House of Fact, House of Ruin, a book of poems. His work appears in The New Yorker and Poetry, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Pushcart Anthology. He is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and Africa. LAURA MARRIS is a poet and translator. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, The Common, The Cortland Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and her translation of Christophe Boltanski’s The Safe House is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.