Poet · Writer · Retreat Leader — Chattanooga, Tennessee
I write poems and essays about surrender, attention, and the life beneath the life. And I sit with people — on retreat, in conversation — who are ready to listen to their own.
§ 01 · New Collection · Summer 2026
"…strong music, a stone blind love of language (the only kind of love that matters), and a wild, wild heart." —Tom Lux
Chad Prevost's fourth full-length collection maps the intricate spaces between what we know and what we feel — the sudden absences, the shifting landscapes, the startling moments where our certainties fall away.
Read two poems from the collection →§ 02 · The Work
Weeklong creativity retreats and day workshops for people making something true — a book, a change, a second half of life. First dates announcing soon.
ConversationsA sustained coaching conversation practice, grounded in the Enneagram and the disciplines of discernment.
BooksShock Point, a year of meditations, and the forthcoming To Let Go and Go Under. The poems have a room of their own.
§ 03 · A Word on the Work
For twenty years I have worked with words and the people who make them: as a poet, an editor, a seminary-trained student of the inner life, and the founder of two presses.
Everything on this site comes from a single conviction — that a life will speak, if you build it a quiet place to do so.
Serious books find their way into the world through Crossroads Publishing Group, the press I founded and run.
I also speak, write commissioned poems for occasions, and — rarely — write a life.
§ 04 · In Other People's Words