Sharon Mesmer

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Full Name	Sharon Mesmer
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Dec 5, 1960(1960-12-05)
Age	64
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sharon Mesmer Biography

Sharon Mesmer is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on December 5, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Mesmer is her mother of the second generation Polish Mesmer, the daughter of Polish second-generation German immigrants was raised on the southside of Chicago located in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. The areais named for close proximity to notorious Union Stockyards, was the theme of Upton Sinclair’s novel of 1906, The Jungle. The first work she published were pieces about her experiences as a teenager punk that appeared in the iconic Chicago punk ‘zine , the Gabba Gabba Gazette while she was in St. Joseph High School. Her first poems published were “The Nordic Skull In Double Exposure” that appeared in Maureen Owen’s New york-based journal of literature, Telephone in addition to “The Anger of Animals” was published as an article in Intro 12, a magazine belonging to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Sharon Mesmer (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a Polish-American writer, poet and essayist, as well as a Professor of Creative Writing. Her poetry collections include Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books 2007), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997, released to coincide with an entire month-long reading tour through Japan which was sponsored by American Book Jam magazine). Her fiction collections include Ma Vie a Yonago (Hachette Litteratures, Paris, in French translation by Daniel Bismuth, 2005) and in Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press 2005) and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press 2005). She is a teacher in the graduate and undergraduate programmes of New York University and The New School. She has been a resident of Brooklyn, New York since 1988. She is a distant cousin from Franz Anton Mesmer, proponent of animal magnetism (or mesmerism) and Otto Messmer, the American animator most famous for the creation of Felix the Cat.

Following the time that Mesmer moved from Chicago to move to New York, she became an instructor at the school of Allen Ginsberg in the Brooklyn College MFA poetry program. With Ginsberg’s help she was given the MacArthur Scholarship (given through the college as a gift from John Ashbery) and represented the school in the Poetry Society of America’s “Best of New York Writing Programs.” When writing about Mesmer’s first novel, Half Angel, Half Lunch, Ginsberg characterized her work as “always interesting, beautifully bold and vivaciously modern.” It was through Ginsberg that Mesmer was exposed to Buddhist practices. Due to her connection with Ginsberg and her work, she is regarded as to be a post-Beat poet (see Beat Generation). The early poetry she wrote has links with the New York School as well as post-Language poems. In 2003 Mesmer was one of the first participants of flarf poetry which was the first poetry movement that emerged in this century. She performed along with others from the group in the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN in 2008 and at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 2009 during the “Flarf Versus Conceptual” event. Four of her flarf poetry appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013).

Sharon Mesmer Net Worth

Sharon Mesmer is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sharon Mesmer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

PoetryCrossing Second Avenue (ABJ Books, Japan, 1997), Half Angel, Half Lunch (HArd PRess, 1998), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (Belladonna Books, 2006), Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008),The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008)

Fiction The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2000), Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005), Ma Vie a Yonago (Hachette Litteratures, France, 2005)

Mesmer lectures and performs her work widely: at the 2010 Iceland Wave Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland; at a reading and panel discussion sponsored by the Danish Writers’ Union in 2010; and at the Ovidius Festival at Neptun Beach, Romania, in 2009. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Wall Street Journal, New American Writing, the Evergreen Review, Eleven Eleven, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others. Anthology appearances include I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues, 2012), Poems for the Nation: Edited by Allen Ginsberg (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999). Her awards include a Fulbright Specialist grant (2011), an Alumna of the Year Award from Columbia College Chicago (2009), a Jerome Foundation/SASE award (as mentor to poet Elisabeth Workman, grantee, 2009) and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2007 and 1999).

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Top Facts about Sharon Mesmer

1. Sharon Mesmer is an American poet and fiction writer.
2. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951.
3. Mesmer has published several poetry collections and novels.
4. Her work often explores themes of gender, sexuality, and identity.
5. Mesmer is a professor of creative writing at NYU.
6. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Guggenheim Fellowship.
7. Mesmer’s poetry has been featured in various literary journals and anthologies.
8. She is known for her experimental approach to language and form.
9. Mesmer’s most recent book is “Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place.”
10. Her work has been praised for its humor, wit, and intelligence.