Corey MeslerCorey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and Esquire/Narrative. He has published 9 novels, 4 short story collections, and 5 full-length poetry collections, and a dozen chapbooks. He's been nominated for the Pushcart many times, and 2 of his poems were chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. With his wife he runs a 142 year-old bookstore in Memphis.

Other poems by Corey Mesler in Verse Daily:
June 27, 2008:   "A Poem About Monkeys" "How they're noisy, how..."

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Other poems on the web by Corey Mesler:
"Let the Light Stand"
Three poems
Five poems
Three poems
Three poems
Eigth poems
"Old Friend, Butcher, Despot"
"Today I Resist the Gods"
Three poems
"My Father is Still Dying"
"Mouth"
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems

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About Among the Mensans:

"Corey Mesler knows how to carve a poem out of silence, to amaze us by shaping nothing into something. Reminds us of the connection between poetry and religious experience. I lean towards his domestic poems, so quiet that they startle us all the more with their imagery. 'My Dog and Me,' for example, is like a koan, made for rereading. Mary Oliver might find herself envious of Mesler's dog poems. Other lyrics shock us with laughter and a fresh take on the sacred. 'Joseph,' for example, gives us new perspective on virgin birth, a take that sounds honest and real. Not at all stuffy or affected, this volume is a subtle surprise party for language and its readers."
—Marilyn Kallet

"It's hard to read Corey Mesler's Among the Mensans and Other Poems without thinking of Trout Fishing in America. Mesler has written a slightly elevated Brautiganian tome. The river comes to life, the river moves and is borrowed. The river has a conversation with you. These words are not in vain. They'll move your rivers. They make your lovers come back to life. Among the Mensans maps out an entire life in poetry. It's full of memory and an acute awareness of the finiteness of the human experience. Let Mesler tell you the story of his life... the accessible language and sometimes just above real imagery will parallel your story. You'll learn you can make poetry out of whatever you are holding."
—Rick Lupert

"Direct, clipped, with never a syllable wasted, Corey Mesler's poems in Among the Mensans reflect on expansive obsessions: love, loss, and the body's perfect imperfections. This is a wonderfully large-hearted, bracing, candid, and ambitious collection by a writer whose searching intelligence lights every line."
—Lee Upton