Sharon Mesmer
@SharonMesmer
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Multi-genre writer, educator, author (most recently) of Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place @BloofBooks. Earthling, Chicagoan, Brooklynite, double fire sign.
Brooklyn, New York
Joined October 2009
What I learned from Allen Ginsberg when he was my Brooklyn College MFA teacher; his best lesson wasn't about poetry. Thanks to @Susanshapironet and our great group, and Matthew Burgess and Joshua Garcia @twc_org for giving me the opportunity.
teachersandwritersmagazine.org
Sharon Mesmer on Allen Ginsberg.
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So happy that Hanging Loose Press is featuring "Catching Up with Sharon Mesmer" on their site right now, even though I'm not doing much these days. Thanks, @jcsnuggy!!! <3
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Dwight McBride, president of the New School during last year's strike, has "decided to move on."
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She never went to high school, her own parents barely spoke English, but she made sure I attended college. She raised my nephew while in a wheelchair and on oxygen. I'm envious of friends' nurturing mothers, but she taught me what the world is really like. Blessed be.
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Planning a trip to Florida? Maybe rethink that plan. https://t.co/dY5JdNVpQU
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Tallahassee, Florida – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights…
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THE NEW SCHOOL PART-TIME FACULTY STRIKE IS OVER!!! Thank you, @act_uaw7902, thank you @studentfacultysolidarity, thank you @newschoolstudentsenate, thank you @nsfreepress and THANK YOU TO THE WARRIOR BARGAINING COMMITTEE!!!
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NYTimes coverage of the New School strike:
nytimes.com
Striking professors stopped teaching classes and grading coursework on Wednesday after their contract expired earlier in the week.
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My poem, "I Have Thirteen Penises," and its amazing exegesis by Angela Ball, up at @BestAmPo. Click and find out if I really do, unbelievers! Thank you, Angela, for choosing and writing about these red-headed step-penises. 💝
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Tomorrow: Blood Moon Total Eclipse in Taurus, conjunct Uranus (unpredictability/instability) and square Saturn (stability/control/limitation). The Civil War began during a Saturn/Uranus square. Don’t let tomorrow be an eclipse of democracy. VOTE. https://t.co/wnEjgnafbb
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This lunar eclipse occurs on the same day as the midterm elections in the U.S.
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Democracy — of the people, by the people, and for the people — is so fragile that you can vote it out of existence. Just select candidates who will only accept the election results if they win.
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Uche Nduka's gorgeous new book from @roofbooks. "...beautifully cracked machinations of language that let all kinds of light (and shadow in)." Buy it! https://t.co/B7uzXCkNix
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There's been a shooting at the 36th Street subway station in Brooklyn. Friends, please check in that you are okay. https://t.co/QVixuFebEW
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This detail in the Fadel Senna photo accompanying today's Times article about the Kramatorsk bombing: a small dog wrapped up in a blanket, near the body of the person whom he or she accompanied. Lux perpetua. #СлаваУкраїні
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I am so excited to be among these poets honoring Paul Hoover @lessnessness this Saturday. It will be legendary. Please join us, and thanks @Lit_Balm !
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