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Birth Name:

Sharon Mesmer

Female

Birth Date:

Mon, Dec 05, 1960

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

63

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

13°

Sag

37'

About Sharon Mesmer

Sharon Mesmer (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a Polish-American poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing. Her poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), 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, published to coincide with a month-long reading tour of Japan sponsored by American Book Jam magazine). Her fiction collections are Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation by Daniel Bismuth, 2005), In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press, 2005) and The Empty Quarter (Hanging Loose Press, 2005). She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of New York University and The New School. She has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1988 and is a distant relative of Franz Anton Mesmer, proponent of animal magnetism (or mesmerism) and Otto Messmer, the American animator best known for creating Felix the Cat.

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External Links:

• Sharon Mesmer

• "She Makes the Dirty Work Look Like a Degas," interview with Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle for Hyperallergic, March 26, 2017

• "All Praise the Women of Menopause," The New York Times, February 11, 2016

• "Both Metaphor and Reality: Sharon Mesmer and the Poetics of Flarf," interview with Owen Percy, The Poetic Front, Vol. 2, No. 9, 2009

• "Beer is Two Subway Stops Away from Mysticism," Sharon Mesmer in conversation with Bart Plantenga for The Brooklyn Rail

• Flarf Festival 2006: Sharon Mesmer Reading

• "Flarf is Dead, Long Live Post-Flarf" on The Scream Online

• "Getting To Know Sharon Mesmer," interview with Daniel Nestor, The Best American Poetry, May 26, 2008

• "Is Flarf Corrosive?," podcast of Poemtalk #3 with Ken Goldsmith, Nada Gordon and Steve McLaughlin on Sharon Mesmer's "I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm in Love with Harry Whittington"

• "Q & A: American Poetry," Poetry Society of America

• Reading at Tribes Gallery for Sensitive Skin magazine, October 5th, 2013

• Review of Annoying Diabetic Bitch by D. J. Huppatz, Critical Cities

• "Evil Polish Boners & Other Flarf Poems" at Sensitive Skin magazine

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Sharon Mesmer: Sun 13 Sagittarius, Moon 12 Cancer, Mercury 27 Scorpio, Venus 24 Capricorn, Mars 17 Cancer, Jupiter 8 Capricorn, Saturn 16 Capricorn, Uranus 25 Leo, Neptune 10 Scorpio, Pluto 8 Virgo, Mercury Square Uranus, Mercury Sextile Venus, Venus Quincunx Uranus, Venus Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Mars Opposition Saturn, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Trine Pluto, Neptune Sextile Pluto

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