Chad Sweeney and Joshua McKinney Reading
Sacramento Poetry Center presented Chad Sweeney and Joshua McKinney at HQ for the Arts, 1719 25th St., Sacramento. The reading started at 7:30 and ended at 9:03 pm.
Chad Sweeney read first. We were taken through an expedition of poetic surrealism, where voices collide and coalesce into dream and back. He read from his manuscript-in-progress and An Architecture, a book I plan to review for Poetry Now. Listening to him read, I was reminded of Zimbabwe's Dambudzo Marechera.
Joshua Mckinney of the Saunter fame read some very promising poems in his manuscript Mad Cursive. He explained that the idea of mad cursive is based on Japanese caligraphy and deals with the paradoxes of contemporary life.
Chad Sweeney is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and the author of two full-length books of poetry, An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), as well as the chapbook, A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). He was chosen for Best American Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright, and his work has appeared in journals such as New American Writing, Barrow Street, Verse, Black Warrior, Colorado Review, Tea Party, Runes, Poetry Flash, Crazyhorse, H_ngm_n, GutCult, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Interim, Denver Qtly, Slope, Coconut, Forklift, Big Bell, Pool, T-Sky, Ping Pong, the tiny, and Electronic Poetry Review. With Iranian writer and scholar, Mojdeh Marashi, Chad has translated the selected works of poet H. E. Sayeh with the support of a grant from the SF Arts Commission. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, but will begin a PhD in English/Poetry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in the Fall of 2008.
Joshua McKinney’s Permutations of the Gallery was the winner of the Pavement Saw Press chapbook contest. Saunter won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition for 2001. The Novice Mourner won the Dorothy Brunsman Prize of Bear Star Press. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, International Quarterly, Volt, and many others. He is a black belt in Kendo and in verbal jujitsu. He also occasionally morphs into a meteorologist in South Carolina where he has become passionately immersed in thunderstorm dynamics.
Chad Sweeney read first. We were taken through an expedition of poetic surrealism, where voices collide and coalesce into dream and back. He read from his manuscript-in-progress and An Architecture, a book I plan to review for Poetry Now. Listening to him read, I was reminded of Zimbabwe's Dambudzo Marechera.
Joshua Mckinney of the Saunter fame read some very promising poems in his manuscript Mad Cursive. He explained that the idea of mad cursive is based on Japanese caligraphy and deals with the paradoxes of contemporary life. Chad Sweeney is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and the author of two full-length books of poetry, An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), as well as the chapbook, A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer (Tarpaulin Sky, 2006). He was chosen for Best American Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright, and his work has appeared in journals such as New American Writing, Barrow Street, Verse, Black Warrior, Colorado Review, Tea Party, Runes, Poetry Flash, Crazyhorse, H_ngm_n, GutCult, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters & Commentary, Interim, Denver Qtly, Slope, Coconut, Forklift, Big Bell, Pool, T-Sky, Ping Pong, the tiny, and Electronic Poetry Review. With Iranian writer and scholar, Mojdeh Marashi, Chad has translated the selected works of poet H. E. Sayeh with the support of a grant from the SF Arts Commission. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, but will begin a PhD in English/Poetry at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in the Fall of 2008.
Joshua McKinney’s Permutations of the Gallery was the winner of the Pavement Saw Press chapbook contest. Saunter won the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition for 2001. The Novice Mourner won the Dorothy Brunsman Prize of Bear Star Press. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ploughshares, International Quarterly, Volt, and many others. He is a black belt in Kendo and in verbal jujitsu. He also occasionally morphs into a meteorologist in South Carolina where he has become passionately immersed in thunderstorm dynamics.
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