Chad Sweeney

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Sweeney in 2009
Born1970
Oklahoma
OccupationPoet, editor, teacher, translator
Notable worksAn Architecture, Arranging the Blaze, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, Parthenon West Review
Spouse Jennifer K. Sweeney

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

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Life

Born in Oklahoma in 1970, Sweeney holds a BA from the University of Oklahoma, an MFA from San Francisco State University and a PhD from Western Michigan University. [1]

Sweeney is the author of five books of poetry, Little Million Doors: An Elegy (Nightboat Books, 2019) (Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize [2] ), Wolf's Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift Books), Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVox, 2007); and five chapbooks, including A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006). [3] With David Holler, he edits Parthenon West Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays [4] and Ghost Town Literary Magazine, a fiction and poetry journal.

Sweeney's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2012 and Verse Daily, and in other 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 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. [5] 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.

Sweeney taught for seven years in the San Francisco WritersCorps, [5] 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. He moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan to earn a Ph.D. in English with a creative dissertation. He moved to California later that year to become an assistant professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA program at California State University San Bernardino and lives in Southern California with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney and their son, Liam.

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Chapbooks

Works Edited

Poems Online

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References

  1. Anhinga Press > Chad Sweeney > Author Page Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 "Little Million Doors". Nightboat Books. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  3. 1 2 Chad Sweeney profile at Alice James Books
  4. Parthenon West Review > Staff Archived October 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page Archived February 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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