Professional
Biography:
- email: charles.swanson@pcs.k12.va.us, cswanson@radford.edu
- Address: 409
Smith Road, Chatham, VA 24531
- Bachelor of
Arts, English, Bluefield College, 1977
- Master of
Divinity, Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, 1983
- Master of
Arts in English at Radford University,
2005
- Master of
Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Queens
University, 2008
- Books
Published: After the Garden: Selected
Responses to the Psalms (MotesBooks,
2009); Farm Life and Legend
(Finishing Line Press, 2009)
- Department
Chair and Lead Teacher, English
Courses:
Semester 1
- AP English
Language/Composition
- Creative
Writing
Semester 2
- AP English
Language/Composition
- English 11
Personal
Interests:
- Christianity
- music (piano,
choir, and voice)
- gardening
(farming)
- poetry
Favorite
Links:
Those that have to
do with poetry
Quotes:
"The
poet’s voice need not merely be the record
of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars
to help him endure and prevail." --William
Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950.
"....some
words are gates swinging wide open..." --
Kathryn Stripling Byer -- contemporary
Appalachian poet
