Monday Must Read! Jennifer K. Sweeney: Little Spells
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Jennifer K. Sweeney, the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily.
Jennifer’s Website:
http://www.jenniferksweeney.com/
Get Jennifer’s Beautiful Books!
Little Spells
http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/sweeney-littlespells.html
How to Live on Bread and Music
http://www.perugiapress.com/books/how-to-live-on-bread-and-music/
Read more of Jennifer’s work online!
Academy of American Poets
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jennifer-k-sweeney
The Noe Valley Voice
http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2010/July-August/OVJS.htm
Connotation Press
http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/may-2010/427-jennifer-k-sweeney-poetry
Linebreak
https://linebreak.org/poems/the-somnambulist/
Hear Jennifer read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxTf4xmK8k
Interviews
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/01/poet_jennifer_k_sweeney_discus.html
At Donna Vorreyer’s Fill in the Blanks
https://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/fill-in-the-blanks-with-jennifer-k-sweeney/
http://tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-interview-little-spells-by.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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