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

Life

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'' (

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2010), ''Arranging the Blaze'' (Anhinga, 2009), and ''An Architecture'' (BlazeVox, 2007); and five

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s, including ''A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer'' (

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, 2006).Chad Sweeney profile at Alice James Books
/ref> With David Holler, he edits ''Parthenon West Review,'' a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays and ''Ghost Town Literary Magazine,'' a fiction and poetry journal. Sweeney's poems have appeared in ''

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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.'' With Mojdeh Marashi, he has translated selected poems by the Iranian poet, H.E. Sayeh (

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), with individual poems appearing in such magazines as ''Crazyhorse'', ''American Letters & Commentary'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Poetry International'', ''Subtropics'', ''Pingpong'' and ''Seattle Review''.BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page
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

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, 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

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, 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. Born in Oklahoma in 1970, Sweeney holds a BA from the

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, an MFA from

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and a PhD from

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Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections * ''Wolf's Milk: Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney'' ( Forklift Books) * ''The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh'' (Translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi,

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) * ''Parable of Hide and Seek,'' (

) * ''Arranging the Blaze,'' (

Anhinga Press Anhinga Press is an American, independent, literary press located in Tallahassee, Fla. The press began in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Apalachee Poetry Center, a non-profit organization promoting the reading and understanding of poetry. In 1976, f ...

, 2009) * ''An Architecture,'' (

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, 2007) Chapbooks * ''A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer,'' (

, 2006) * ''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) . * ''Parthenon West Review'' (Issues 1 - 8, Berkeley, CA) Parthenon West Review
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Poems Online
''Verse Daily'' > April 2009 Web Monthly Feature > ''33 Translations of One Basho'' by Chad Sweeney

* ttp://www.foumagazine.net/#cs ''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"

8, 2008. * "Fire Escape as Axis Mundi," "Inheritance,".

Fall 2008. * "Nocturne," "Wind beneath the Skin," "Shadowdogs"

10, Fall 2008. * "from An Architecture"

Issue 10, 2007. * "from An Architecture"

29, 2007. * "A Love Song," "Poem," "Landscape," "The Auction"

2006. * "New Mexico"

2006. * "Thanksgiving," "Where," "Journey to Detroit," "Of What Continues"

Issue 8, 2006. Audio/Video Links

Chicago, February 14, 2009. At ''The Great American Pin-Up.''
Moe's Books, Video
Berkeley, CA, August 4, 2008.

Berkeley, CA, August 4, 2008. Review Links * Review of ''Arranging the Blaze'' i

by Rick Marlatt, June 5, 2009. * Review of ''Arranging the Blaze'' i

by Stefanie Silva, September 2009. * Review of ''Days I Moved through Ordinary Sounds'' i
The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, May 2009. * Review of ''An Architecture'' i

by John Deming, July 8, 2008. * Review of ''An Architecture'' i

by Eileen Tabios, March 30, 2008. * Review of ''A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer'' i

by Chris Vola, December 7, 2006. Interview Links * Chad Sweeney o
The Joe Milford Poetry Show
Interview by Joseph Milford, July 19, 2008. * Interview with Maurice Kenny a
World Literature Today
May–August 2005.

References

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Life

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