The WordTemple Poetry Series: Chad Sweeney and Thomas Centolella

Chad Sweeney and Thomas Centolella

Chad Sweeney is the author of three books of poetry, Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010, Beatrice Hawley Award Runner-up), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga, 2009), and An Architecture (BlazeVOX, 2007) and editor of Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights Books, 2009). Sweeney’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Crazyhorse, New American Writing, Colorado Review, Black Warrior, Runes, Verse, Volt, Barrow Street, American Letters & Commentary and elsewhere. He is coeditor of Parthenon West Review and is working toward a Ph.D. in literature at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where he teaches poetry and serves as assistant editor of New Issues Press.

Thomas Centolella is the author of three books of poetry, all from Copper Canyon Press. His latest is Views from along the Middle Way. Others include Terra Firma, selected by Denise Levertov for the 1990 National Poetry Series, and Lights & Mysteries, which received the 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. In 1992 he was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Mr. Centolella was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Marin California, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared twice on Garrison Keillor's NPR show The Writers Almanac.

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