The Rolodex Happenings. Stillhouse Press, 2024.
146 pages. Fiction.
“Smart, funny, playful, The Rolodex Happenings is a brilliant book from a truly original writer.”
—Keith Scribner
“The Rolodex Happenings is a gorgeous meditation on art and life. This inventive, hybrid novella is also a moving family love story. As soon as I finished reading it, I started again from the beginning.”
—Michelle Ross
You’re the Woods Too. Essay Press, 2023.
132 pages. Literary Nonfiction.
”Deploying journal entries, poems, visuals, dramatic interventions and elastic, meditative prose, Dennis James Sweeney takes brilliantly to the woods (and to the high peaks and distant trails) of the world and page to pose questions true and questions deep and questions real.”
—Laird Hunt
“You’re the Woods Too is an exceptional work of observation and imagination.”
—Wendy S. Walters
In the Antarctic Circle. Autumn House Press, 2021.
88 pages. Poetry.
“A perfect Beckettian marriage between the spoken and the unspoken, the said and the unsayable.“
—Maryse Meijer
“Through the lenses of dystopia and domestic upheaval, the poet braces us for the shrewd chill of this ultimately uninhabitable place. You almost want to direct the speaker-protagonist and lover Hank to turn back. It’s a fool’s errand. But you can’t stop flipping the pages.“
—Yona Harvey
Ghost/Home: A Beginner’s Guide to Being Haunted. Ricochet Editions, 2020.
25 pages. Literary Nonfiction.
”A tender embrace, this text will haunt you and heal you.”
—Janice Lee
”Through urgent, intimate prose and diagrams of hauntings, Ghost/Home shows us that ghosts are more than billowing curtains and flashes of light—ghosts are Crohn’s, ghosts are history, ghosts are feelings with nowhere to go. Rather than an exorcism, Sweeney coordinates a calling-in, a reckoning with the spirits that move through his body and shape his life.”
—Amy Berkowitz