Long days of rain a phone was ringing High over the steppes the wet Gables of the world immortal it was Our souls streaming into quiets Of woodgrain toward what Plane of convergence for years I could not Answer a music in pain the undying Will undying in […]
Chad Sweeney talks about the genesis of his poem “Million Little Doors.”
The bees are dying toward Beverly Hills The bees are dying into the sun At midnight it is day the bees In Santa Monica our oranges Fall sideways toward no beginning the Bees are dying America in the teeth By waxlight our bees brim up From no well they have Left […]
Chad Sweeney talks about the form of his poem “Million Little Doors”
Chad Sweeney talks about the importance of sound and reading poems aloud, and how hearing a poem by Maurice Kenney led Sweeney to become a poet.
for our unborn son The cornfield winds its halo darkly Come home my little wet monster Time in the copper mine, time in the copper […]
Chad Sweeney teaches in the MFA program at California State University San Bernardino where he edits Ghost Town. He is the author of five books of poetry—most recently, White Martini of the Apocalypse (Marick Press, 2015); Wolf’s Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, 2012); and Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, 2010)—and the translator of […]