Jennifer K. Sweeney
Encyclopedia
Life
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of two poetry collections, most recently, How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia PressPerugia Press
Perugia Press is an American not-for-profit poetry press located in Florence, Massachusetts and founded in 1997 by Editor and Director Susan Kan...
, 2009), winner of the 2009 James Laughlin Award and the 2009 Perugia Press Prize. Her first collection, Salt Memory (Main Street Rag, 2006) won the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines including Southern Review, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard, Spoon River and Passages North, where she won the 2009 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. Her honors include a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and a residency from Hedgebrook
Hedgebrook
Hedgebrook is a rural retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, Washington, founded in 1988. Hedgebrook's artist in residency program accepts 40 writers each year, who spend 2 to 6 weeks in residence working on their diverse writing projects. Each writer stays in her own hand-crafted cottage....
. Sweeney holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers four distinct graduate programs, awarding Master of Fine Arts degrees in Visual Art, Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults and Graphic Design. The student to faculty ratio at VCFA is 4-to-1.. The faculty and alumni of VCFA have won many literary awards,...
and serves as assistant editor for DMQ Review. Born in 1973, she grew up in Tolland, Connecticut. After teaching in San Francisco for twelve years, she currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney
Chad Sweeney
-Life:Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek , Arranging the Blaze , and An Architecture ; and four chapbooks, most recently A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer...
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Honors and awards
- 2009 James Laughlin AwardJames Laughlin AwardThe James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book...
- 2009 Perugia Press Prize
- 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award
Works
Poems Online- Four Poems at Poets.org/Academy of American Poets
- “Happy People”. Hunger Mountain, 2009.
- “How to Grow a Mushroom”. The Pedestal, Issue 51.
- “How to Live on Bread and Music,” “Comfort”. Del Sol Review, Summer 2008, 15.
- “33 Umbrellas”. DMQ Review, May 2007.
- “How to Make Armor”. Parthenon West Review, Issue 5.
- “What Call,” “How to Make a Game of Waiting”. Electronic Poetry Review, Issue 8.
- “The Bird Carver”. The Pedestal, Issue 35.
Published Works
- How to Live on Bread and Music, (Perugia Press, 2009)
- Salt Memory, (Main Street Rag Publications, 2006)
External links
ReviewsVideo/Audio Links
- “Of Gravity and Will”. Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, August 2008.
- “Full Poetry Reading at Moe’s”. Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, August 2008.
- “Apology,” “Ode to a Banana Slug”. Parthenon West Review, Issue 1, 2004.