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Corey
Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Rattle, Canopic Jar,
Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas
Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Orchid, Quick
Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Green Egg, Poetry Motel, Raintown Review,
Potomac Review, Poetry Super Highway, Big Muddy, Slant, Wilmington
Blues, Drought, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl,
Aurorean, Lucid Moon, Heeltap, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth
of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Midday
Moon, Turnrow, Now Here Nowhere, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary,
Cotyledon, Buckle &, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), Flashpoint,
Freewheelin’ (England), Pitchfork, Anthology, Poet Lore,
Spillway, The Pegasus Review, Reverb, Kimera, Thema, Kumquat Meringue,
Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Both Sides Now, Electric Acorn (Dublin), Razor
Wire, Gin Bender, Blue Unicorn, Black Dirt, The Spirit that Moves Us,
Wind, Red Rock Review, Art Times, Concrete Wolf, Memphis Magazine,
Rhino, Visions International, and others. He has a chapbook
of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press.
He has work in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of
Basketball (Breakaway Books), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide
(Pudding Press) and others. He recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and and his chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of his short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, published by Livingston Press in 2002, received praise from from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. He has been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, and The Memphis Flyer), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father and son. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. |
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