Poet Chad Sweeney is scheduled to visit USF on November 4th at 6:00pm at the USF
GraphicStudio. Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry: Parable of Hide
and Seek (Alice James, 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009),
and An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007), and the chapbook A Mirror to Shatter
the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006) -- as well as the editor of Days I Moved Through
Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose(City
Lights, 2009) and coeditor of the journal of poetry and translation, Parthenon West
Review. Sweeney’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2008,
Crazyhorse, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Black Warrior,
Barrow Street, Runes, Verse, Volt, Passages North,
American Letters & Commentary, and elsewhere. He is working toward a Ph.D.
in literature at Western Michigan University, where he teaches poetry and serves
as assistant editor of New Issues Press. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, the
poet Jennifer K. Sweeney.