anhinga press

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), andAn Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and the chapbook A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer(Tarpaulin Sky, 2006) -- as well as the editor ofDays I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose (City Lights, 2009) and co-editor 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.