Chad Sweeney

Chad Sweeney
Chad Sweeney in Galway, Ireland
Born	1970 Oklahoma
Occupation	Poet, editor, Teacher, translator
Notable work(s)	An Architecture, Arranging the Blaze,Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, Parthenon West Review
Spouse(s)	Jennifer K. Sweeney

Chad Sweeney (born 1970) is an American poet, translator and editor.

Life

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007); and four chapbooks, most recently A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006).^[1] With David Holler, Sweeney edits the literary journal Parthenon West Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays.^[2]

Sweeney's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008 and Verse Daily, and in numerous journals and magazines including New American Writing, Black Warrior Review, Verse, Volt, Slope, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, and Denver Quarterly.^[3] With Mojdeh Marashi, he has translated a selected poems by the Iranian poet, H.E. Sayeh (Hushang Ebtehaj), with individual poems appearing in such magazines as Crazyhorse, American Letters & Commentary, Indiana Review, Poetry International, Subtropics, Pingpong and Seattle Review.^[4] He has been awarded both a Project Grant and a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for his work as editor and translator, respectively.^[5]

Sweeney taught for seven years in the San Francisco WritersCorps,^[6] where he compiled and edited Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009), an anthology of poetry, fiction, memoir and playwriting by fifty teaching artists in the National WritersCorps, each of whom led writing workshops in San Francisco, Washington D.C., and the Bronx with “at risk” youth in public schools, housing projects and detention facilities.^[7] In 2010, Sweeney published "The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney De Las Minas De Cobre," a chapbook of poems he translated from Spanish. The chapbooks were soaked in wine and baked in an oven and published through Forklift, Ink.

Born in Oklahoma in 1970, Sweeney holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and San Francisco State University. He taught literature and poetry in San Francisco for fifteen years before entering the Ph.D. program in literature at Western Michigan University in 2008, where he teaches poetry and serves as assistant editor of New Issues Press. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.^[8]

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Parable of Hide and Seek, (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2010)^[9]

• Arranging the Blaze, (Anhinga Press, 2009)^[10]

• An Architecture, (BlazeVOX Books, 2007)^[11]

Chapbooks

• A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006)^[12]

• Nail by Nail the Sunlight, (Brooklyn, NY: Urban Iris Press, 2003)

• Mushrooms, (San Francisco, CA: 3300 Press, 1995)

• Relearning the Tongue, (Edmond, OK: Broncho Press, 1993)

Works Edited

• Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights, San Francisco, CA: 2009)^[13] ISBN 978-1931404105.

• Parthenon West Review (Issues 1 - 6, Berkeley, CA) ^[14]

References

1. ^ Alice James Books > Author Page > Chad Sweeney
2. ^ Parthenon West Review > Staff
3. ^ Alice James Books > Author Page > Chad Sweeney
4. ^ BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
5. ^ Alice James Books > Author Page > Chad Sweeney
6. ^ BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
7. ^ City Lights Books > Book Page > Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose
8. ^ Anhinga Press > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
9. ^ Alice James Books > Forthcoming Titles
10. ^ Anhinga Press > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
11. ^ BlazeVox Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
12. ^ Tarpaulin Sky > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
13. ^ City Lights Author Page > Chad Sweeney
14. ^ [1]

External links

Poems Online

• Verse Daily > April 2009 Web Monthly Feature > 33 Translations of One Basho by Chad Sweeney
• H_ngm_n H_NG M_N > Captain's Log and Silence by Chad Sweeney
• Fou Magazine > The Warden and His Keys, Lithuania, and Earthquake > by Chad Sweeney
• Subtropics > Sunset on the Green co-translation of H.E. Sayeh by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi > Issue 6, 2008
• "Parable of Day," "Notes Toward Making," "Character Development". Electronic Poetry Review 8, 2008.
• "Fire Escape as Axis Mundi," "Inheritance,". DMQ Review, Fall 2008.
• "Nocturne," "Wind beneath the Skin," "Shadowdogs". Gutcult 10, Fall 2008.
• "from An Architecture". Coconut, Issue 10, 2007.
• "from An Architecture". Shampoo Poetry 29, 2007.
• "A Love Song," "Poem," "Landscape," "The Auction". Slope 23, 2006.
• "New Mexico". Tarpaulin Sky, 2006.
• "Thanksgiving," "Where," "Journey to Detroit," "Of What Continues". Eratio, Issue 8, 2006.

Audio/Video Links

• AWP Conference, Book Release Video, Chicago, February 14, 2009. At The Great American Pin-Up.
• Moe's Books, Video, Berkeley, CA, August 4, 2008.
• Moe's Books, Audio of full-length reading, Berkeley, CA, August 4, 2008.

Review Links

• Review of Arranging the Blaze in Coldfront Magazine by Rick Marlatt, June 5, 2009.
• Review of Arranging the Blaze in storySouth by Stefanie Silva, September, 2009.
• Review of Days I Moved through Ordinary Sounds" in The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture, by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, May 2009.
• Review of An Architecture in Coldfront Magazine by John Deming, July 8, 2008.
• Review of An Architecture in Galatea * Resurrects by Eileen Tabios, March 30, 2008.
• Review of A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer in Verse Magazine by Chris Vola, December 7, 2006.

Interview Links

• Chad Sweeney on The Joe Milford Poetry Show, Interview by Joseph Milford, July 19, 2008.
• Interview with Maurice Kenny at World Literature Today, May–August 2005.

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Name	Sweeney, Chad
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Date of birth	1970
Place of birth	Oklahoma
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