The RC’s Sarah Messer, poet and nonfiction writer, will appear on the Clements’ Library panel, “The Clements Bookworm: Writing and Publishing Inspired by Genealogical Research,” on Friday, November 20th at 10 am. Other panelists include Wendy Chapin Ford and Kay Miller.
Sarah is the author of four books: a hybrid history/memoir, Red House (Viking), a book of translations, Having Once Paused: Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (University of Michigan Press) and two poetry books, Bandit Letters (New Issues), and Dress Made of Mice (Black Lawrence Press). Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and Ploughshares, among others. For many years she taught as an Associate Professor in the MFA/BFA program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. In 2010, Messer co-founded One Pause Poetry, an on-line audio archive and reading series in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Aside from her work at the RC, she teaches for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown’s on-line writing program, 24 Pearl Street, and is a cheese maker at White Lotus Farms. She is a U-M alum, and a Hopwood Award winner.
