Chad Sweeney

Chad Sweeney
Chad Sweeney in Galway, Ireland
Born	1970 Oklahoma
Occupation	Poet, editor, Teacher, translator
Notable works	An 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.

Life

Chad Sweeney is the author of four books of poetry, 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).^[1] With David Holler, Sweeney edits the literary journal Parthenon West Review, a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays.^[2] and Ghost Town Literary Magazine, a fiction and poetry journal housed at California State University San Bernardino.^[3]

Sweeney's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2008, the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2012 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.^[1] 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^[5] from the San Francisco Arts Commission for his work as editor and translator, respectively.

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] He moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan to earn a Ph.D. in English with a creative dissertation, where he was a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Kalamazoo College in 2011. 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.

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.^[8]

He now teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts program at California State University San Bernardino, and lives in Southern California with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.^[9] and their son, Liam.

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Wolf's Milk: Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney" (Forklift Books)^[10]

• The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh (Translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi, White Pine Press)^[11]

• Parable of Hide and Seek, (Alice James Books)

• Arranging the Blaze, (Anhinga Press, 2009)^[12]

• An Architecture, (BlazeVOX Books, 2007)^[13]

Chapbooks

• A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer, (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2006)^[14]

• 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)^[15] ISBN 978-1-931404-10-5.

• Parthenon West Review (Issues 1 - 8, Berkeley, CA) ^[16]

References

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.