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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).〔(Chad Sweeney profile at Alice James Books )〕 With David Holler, Sweeney edits the literary journal ''Parthenon West Review,'' a journal of contemporary poetry, translation and essays.〔(''Parthenon West Review'' > Staff )〕 and ''Ghost Town Literary Magazine,'' a fiction and poetry journal housed at California State University San Bernardino.〔()〕 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.''〔 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''.〔(BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page )〕 He has been awarded both a Project Grant and a Cultural Equities Grant〔(San Francisco Arts Commission Agency Report on District-Based Programming FY 2006 - 2007 )〕 from the San Francisco Arts Commission for his work as editor and translator, respectively. Sweeney taught for seven years in the San Francisco WritersCorps,〔(BlazeVOX Books > Chad Sweeney > Author Page )〕 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.〔(City Lights Books > Book Page > ''Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: the Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose'' )〕 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.〔(Anhinga Press > Chad Sweeney > Author Page )〕 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.〔()〕 and their son, Liam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chad Sweeney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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