{"id":8721,"date":"2019-02-08T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:30:38","slug":"sharon-mesmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/sharon-mesmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Mesmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7506\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8721-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/SharonMesmer.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/SharonMesmer.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/SharonMesmer.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_8723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8723\" style=\"width: 354px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8723\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=354%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=768%2C653&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=1024%2C871&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=696%2C592&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=1068%2C909&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?resize=494%2C420&amp;ssl=1 494w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/image001.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Mesmer, photo: Esther Levine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sharon Mesmer\u2019s most recent poetry collection, <i>Greetings From My Girlie Place<\/i> (Bloof Books) was voted one of Entropy\u2019s \u201cBest of 2015.\u201d 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>\u00e1 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 id=\"attachment_8748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8748\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8748\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=640%2C723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=906%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 906w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=768%2C868&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=696%2C787&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=1068%2C1207&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?resize=372%2C420&amp;ssl=1 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?w=1464&amp;ssl=1 1464w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place, poetry collection, Bloof Books, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8749\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8749\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=640%2C1014&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=646%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 646w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=768%2C1217&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=696%2C1103&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?resize=265%2C420&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0696.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ma Via \u00e0 Yonago &#8212; Illuminations, fiction collection, Hachette, 2005, French translation by Daniel Bismuth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/SharonMesmer.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listSharon Mesmer\u2019s most recent poetry collection, Greetings From My Girlie Place (Bloof Books) was voted one of Entropy\u2019s \u201cBest of 2015.\u201d Her other collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, 2008), and Half Angel, Half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-8721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poet","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-manhattan"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0693.jpg?fit=1464%2C1655&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-2gF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}