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Heather Sweeney

HEATHER SWEENEY, she/her, lives in San Diego, where she writes and does visual art. Her chapbooks include Just Let Me Have This (Selcouth Station Press) and Same Bitch, Different Era: The Real Housewives Poems (above/ground press). She is also the author of the collections, Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Call Me California (Finishing Line Press). Her chapbook The Book of Likes is forthcoming from The Hunger Press in 2021. You can find her at www.heathercsweeney.com.

Spitting Image: An Interview with Heather C. Sweeney 
by Katherine Fallon

August 30, 2021 Contributed By: Heather Sweeney, Katherine Fallon

Heather Sweeney Headshot

It’s more of a multifaceted imagined “I,” not just me speaking to one person. It’s thinking about my multiple selves and how we contain all these layers and perform different “I”s in this world.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: August 30, 2021

#CAPTURE
by Heather Sweeney

February 22, 2021 Contributed By: Heather Sweeney

Phone camera

The museum’s light was overrated I wanted to be a different person there Let’s have Old Fashioneds in the hotel bar & take selfies with our cocktails held high Ok Marcie please don’t smell my drink & wince I didn’t pray for you That’s what I learned from this That everything contains a distance There […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: February 22, 2021

#FEED
by Heather Sweeney

February 22, 2021 Contributed By: Heather Sweeney

Electronics showing social media

Can honesty go viral? The truth is that my casket Is a hot dog bun & the mirror Is reversed the truth is that someone Is haunting me from the future & I woke up with a cold sore Caked with glitter I woke up wedged In a garage full of lazy boys & lit […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: February 22, 2021

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