{"id":6823,"date":"2019-02-08T23:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/sharon-mesmer\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:21:19","slug":"sharon-mesmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/sharon-mesmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Mesmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8723\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-2.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-5.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-6.jpg 494w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-7.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001-8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Mesmer, photo: Esther Levine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sharon Mesmer&rsquo;s most recent poetry collection, <i>Greetings From My Girlie Place<\/i> (Bloof Books) was voted one of Entropy&rsquo;s &ldquo;Best of 2015.&rdquo; Her other collections are <i>Annoying Diabetic Bitch<\/i> (Combo, 2008), <i>The Virgin Formica<\/i> (Hanging Loose, 2008), and <i>Half Angel, Half Lunch<\/i>(Hard Press, 1998). A chapbook, <i>Vertigo Seeks Affinities<\/i>, was published by Belladonna in 2006. Four poems appear in <i>Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology<\/i> (second edition). She has also published several collections of short fiction, including <i>Ma Vie <\/i><i>&aacute; Yonago<\/i>(Hachette, in French, 2005). She has had essays in the <i>New York Times<\/i>, <i>New York Magazine<\/i>, the <i>Paris Review<\/i> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2019\/02\/poetry\/Little-Dog-at-the-End-of-the-Rainbow\"><i>Brooklyn Rail<\/i><\/a>. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches literature and creative writing at NYU and the New School.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8748\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-1.jpg 906w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-2.jpg 265w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-5.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-6.jpg 372w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-7.jpg 1464w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693-8.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, poetry collection, Bloof Books, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8749\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-1.jpg 646w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-2.jpg 189w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-3.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-5.jpg 265w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696-6.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ma Via &agrave; Yonago &mdash; Illuminations, fiction collection, Hachette, 2005, French translation by Daniel Bismuth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Mesmer, photo: Esther Levine Sharon Mesmer&rsquo;s most recent poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Place (Bloof Books) was voted one of Entropy&rsquo;s &ldquo;Best of 2015.&rdquo; Her other collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008), and Half Angel, Half Lunch(Hard Press, 1998). A chapbook, Vertigo Seeks Affinities, was published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}