RC Creative Writing teacher Sarah Messer was featured in a February 2021 Ann Arbor Observer article called “Lives of the Poets,” which reviewed the Ann Arbor connections of several famous poets (including Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon, Robert Hayden, and Radcliffe Squires), then focused on local poets Linda Gregerson, Keith Taylor (who recently retired from U-M, where he ran the English undergraduate writing program), and Sarah
Sarah is a Hopwood Award winner (1990). She came to Michigan to work with Alice Fulton, who taught at U-M from 1983-2002. In later years, Sarah quit a tenured teaching position at North Carolina-Wilmington to return to Ann Arbor, where she eventually started working at the RC, after a recommendation from long-time RC creative writing teacher Ken Mikolowski. Sarah also works at White Lotus Farms, caring for the goat herd. The print and on-line article has a cute photo of Sarah with Buckwheat, one of the White Lotus goats.
In 2010 Sarah co-founded the One Pause poetry program at White Lotus. Its website is currently getting an overhaul, but videos of readings and interviews are available on the One Pause Youtube channel.
