Glenn Arthur Sweazey
Ottawa Writer
Retired from teaching high school English, Glenn Arthur Sweazey lives in Ottawa, Canada. His writing often blends poetry and prose to paint narrative canvases.
Work
Examples of My Writing
An Excerpt from the Verse Novel Manuscript, The Lost Papers of Tom Thomson
Innocence Lost: Hopscotch, Spring 2020
OK Boomer, Show Us Your Moves
Game of Dreams
… The grass in the home team’s park always smells / freshly mown, sweet like hay on his farm, not / five miles away, down old Coal Road, next to / Arthurs’ Corner where cows grazed through my youth. …
“Who are we if not the harvest from seeds in fields whence we came?
It's not just the places, of course, though one's 'home place' often plays a large part in the person we become. But it's the people -- special ones, each of us have had them -- who harrowed the fields of that home place so we could grow tall and straight as we'd ever hope to be.”
From "Letters to Two Michaels (Year 3 / Week 14)" by Glenn Arthur Sweazey
Contact
Thanks for reviewing some samples of my poetry. You can get in touch with me to find out more about my work as an Ottawa Writer.
“When we cross the sea,
It is the distance from our past we cross.”