I'd have to say that Browning for his technique; Wallace Stevens for a certain quality of gravitas, what Keats feels near his death, when he said he was living a sort of posthumous existence; Philip Larkin for his sense of extremity; Pound for his fluidity of conception and hardness of execution; Baudelaire for his music and intense scrutiny and affection for street life; and Bishop and Lowell for their immersion in the physical world, would be my fathers and mothers.

Poetry collections

• Space Walk (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007)
• Far Side of the Earth (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003)
• The Dreamhouse (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
• The Chain (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
• Waking (University of Chicago Press, 1990)
• After One (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)

Prose works

• Interview with a Ghost (Graywolf Press, 2006)

Dramatic works

• Ice Trucker Pilgrimage, a multi-media opera (presented at San Francisco Film Festival 2006)
• The Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel, or an Old-Fashioned Love Story (produced in 2004, New York Fringe Theater Festival)
• Rubber (performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, Raw Space Theater, New York City, 2002; winner of "Best of the Fest" award and a 2003 OOBR Award from the Off Off Broadway Review)
• Barbarosa (staged reading at Boston University's Playwright's Theater, 1998)
• Ahab's Wife (performed at Loeb's ART Institute, Boston, 1997; and Jim Henson Foundation's International Festival of Puppet Theater, New York City, 1998)

Translations

• Herakles by Euripides (Oxford University Press USA, 2000)

• Kingsley Tufts Award (2008), for Space Walk Poet Tom Sleigh Walks Away With $100,000 | Poets & Writers
• Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• The Shelley Award from the Poetry Society of America
• Guggenheim Foundation Grant
• Ingram Merill Foundation Grant
• Two National Endowment for the Arts grants

• http://www.bu.edu/agni/interviews/online/2003/sleigh-wong.html
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2000/mar00/sleigh.html
• http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1425
• http://www.pw.org/content/poet_tom_sleigh_walks_away_100000