A New Cadence Poetry
Series
presents
Chad Sweeney &
Mojdeh Marashi
A trilingual reading!
from
The Art of
Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E. Sayeh 1948-2000 (White Pine
Press)
and
Wolf’s Milk: the
Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift,
Ohio)
7:30 pm, SATURDAY, MARCH 24TH
@
FELIX KULPA
GALLERY
107 ELM STREET
SANTA CRUZ, CA
95060
The Art of Stepping Through Time: Selected Poems of H.E.
Sayeh spans more than fifty years of production by one of Iran’s most
important contemporary poets. They will read these musical poems in both
Persian and English! The book was supported by grants from the NEA, New York
Council on the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Council and the Witter Byner
Foundation.
Wolf’s Milk: The Lost
Notebooks of Juan Sweeney is a bilingual edition, the first of its kind, a
“translation” from a fictitious poet, the great Irish Spaniard poet, Juan
Sweeney. Chad will read from it in both langauges.
Chad Sweeney
teaches in the MFA program at California State University, San Bernardino. He
is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, the Spanish/Enlish
bilingual Wolf’s Milk: Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift, 2012) and
Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James, 2010) which was a Cold Front Magazine
best book of 2010 and a finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the
Year. He is cotranslator of the Selected Poems of contemporary
Iranian poet H.E. Sayeh, the “modern Hafiz.” Sweeney’s poems have appeared
widely, including in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize
Anthology, American Poetry Review, New American Writing and
Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He lives in Redlands with his wife, poet
Jennifer K. Sweeney and their son Liam.
Mojdeh Marashi
is a writer, artist, and designer whose work is deeply influenced by the
ancient and modern history of Iran. Born in Iran, she moved to U.S. in 1977 and
has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since. Filled with a deep longing
for the culture she was raised in, she cofounded YALDA cultural organization in
1986, teaching Persian languageclasses and co-hosting the weekly radio program
“Rang aa Rang (Colorful)” on KUSF, the University of San Francisco’s radio
station. She has an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MA in Creative Writing
from San Francisco State University. Her fiction was chosen for the anthology
Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: Women of the Iranian Diaspora (University of
Arkansas, 2006), and her translations (with Chad Sweeney) have appeared in
Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, Poetry International, American Letters &
Commentary, Atlanta Review, Seattle Review, Subtropics and Washington Square.
She has traveled twice to Iran to work directly with H.E. Sayeh for this
project.
