Sharon Mesmer
Encyclopedia
Sharon Mesmer is an American writer. Born in Chicago, she moved in 1988 to New York City and has since made the east coast her home. She is a two time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry. She is considered a poet of the Flarf poetry
movement.
Crossing 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)
Flarf poetry
Flarf poetry can be characterized as an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. Its first practitioners used an aesthetic dedicated to the exploration of “the inappropriate” in all of its guises...
movement.
Works
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)