Posts tagged "Sharon Mesmer"
Sharon Mesmer – “Metaxu” excerpt – 3/16/11
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Rimbaud’s Illuminations
[ Wednesday, April 27, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
At last! John Ashbery’s translation of French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s final masterpiece before abandoning poetry at the age of 21, Illuminations (Norton, 2011) has been published. Ashbery’s rendering of all forty-four poems powerfully evokes the kaleidoscopic beauty of the original and creates “a vision of postdiluvian freshness” out of “the chaos of ice floes and [...]
Connie Deanovich & Sharon Mesmer
[ Wednesday, March 16, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Wednesday
Connie Deanovich is the author of Zombie Jet and Watusi Titanic. Her awards include a GE Award for Younger Writers, Fund for Poetry Grants, and a Whiting Writers Award. Widely anthologized and published in the small presses, Connie Deanovich is from Chicago and Madison Wisconsin.
Sharon Mesmer’s most recent poetry collections are The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose, [...]
Spring Workshop Reading
[ Friday, May 14, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Friday
Please join us for a reading by students of the Spring workshops, led by Anselm Berrigan, Daniel Machlin and Sharon Mesmer.
Simple Text(S): Poetry In And Around Prose – Sharon Mesmer
[ Tuesday, February 9, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Sharon Mesmer will be teaching a ten-week long Tuesday evening workshop, beginning February 9, 2010. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9 pm.
You’ve heard it before: why is it that poets can write prose, but prose writers can’t write poetry? Maybe it’s because prose writers haven’t fully explored the places where poetry [...]
