Corey Mesler

Corey Mesler is an American writer and shopkeeper.^[1] Mesler's work has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (2010) and Following Richard Brautigan (2010), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2010), and 2 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009) and Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2010) . He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written, “The Martian Hop.” With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

He and his wife bought Burke’s Book Store in Memphis, Tennessee in 2000 it is an independent bookstore founded in 1875.^[2] It is one of the oldest independent bookstores in the USA.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.brinklit.com/poetry/two-poems-by-corey-mesler
2. ^ http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=30196

Born July 20, 1955, in Niagara Falls, NY.

External links

• Corey Mesler's website

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