Sarah Messer
Author of Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House (Viking, 2004) and the poetry collection Bandit Letters (New Issues, 2001), Sarah Messer has received fellowships and grants from organizations including the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and Quarterly West, as well as several anthologies. A graduate of Middlebury College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she lives in North Carolina, where she is associate professor of creative writing at The University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is currently working on two new books of poetry and a novel.Sarah Messer's work can be found elswhere online:
Reviews:
The Poetry Society of America Critic's Page
Interviews:
Third Coast
The Connection, WBUR, Boston
Posted on July 15, 2005 7:22 AM
- Sarah Messer at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
- Sarah Messer Full Bowdoin Reading
- Looking at Satan (live)
- Falling Asleep While Reading (live)
- State of the Union (live)
- Rabid Dog (live)
- The Animal Groom (live)
- America the Hallelujah (live)
- I Am the Real Jesse James (live)
- Sarah Messer Audience Q&A at Bowdoin College, October 5, 2006
- America, the Hallelujah
- I am the Real Jesse James
- The Animal Groom
- Rabid Dog
- Sarah Messer Q&A with some advice to young poets
- Sarah Messer Q&A recommends two poets
- Sarah Messer Q&A on a poem she wishes she'd written
- Sarah Messer Q&A talks about writing poetry versus writing prose
- Sarah Messer Q&A on her current project
- Sarah Messer Q&A talks about her writing time
- Sarah Messer Q&A discusses the most difficult aspect of becoming a poet
- Sarah Messer Q&A discusses the formal strategy of her poem I am the Real Jesse James
- Sarah Messer Q&A talks about her poem Animal Groom
- Sarah Messer Q&A discusses poetic form
- Sarah Messer Q&A on the first poem she ever wrote
- Sarah Messer Q&A on how she became interested in poetry
- Sarah Messer