“Boundary Music” in State Lines, San Francisco Chronicle

“Boundary Music” in State Lines, San Francisco Chronicle

Little Prayers, debut poetry collection and winner of the 2018 Blue Light Book Award by Susie Meserve

State Lines: Susie Meserve’s “Boundary Music”

Sep. 4, 2018

Maybe the poet’s most important function is to visit the world and report what is found—to make us all aware of things we fail to notice. Susie Meserve takes this role seriously in her debut collection, Little Prayers. It’s a book full of wistfulness. And of wisdom gained from friendship, music, marriage and parenthood. —David Roderick

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2002 Smokin’ Word Poetry Contest (Susie Takes 2nd Place)

2002 Smokin’ Word Poetry Contest (Susie Takes 2nd Place)

Smokin’ Word Poetry Contest

February 26, 2002

Everyone’s a critic? Maybe in New York. In Portland, it seems, everyone’s a writer. In fact, writing may be the city’s only true art form. For every local writer of national fame (Chuck Palahniuk, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tom Spanbauer, Whitney Otto, et al.) there are thousands of other budding scribes hitting open-mike nights, writing for small journals, self-publishing chapbooks or otherwise parking for hours on end at a cafe table with Powerbook or pen at hand…

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An Interview with Rock & Sling Contributor Susie Meserve

An Interview with Rock & Sling Contributor Susie Meserve

An Interview with R&S Contributor Susie Meserve

October 27, 2015

Terra Ojeda: Do you have a writing routine? If so, what does it look like?

Susie Meserve: I do have a writing routine—of sorts. My mantra is, ‘write first, before everything else.’ If I try to start my paid work first, or start with paying bills or anything else, I never get to the writing. 

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Susie Meserve on The Write Stuff: On Fear, Legacy, and The Creativity Notebook

Susie Meserve on The Write Stuff: On Fear, Legacy, and The Creativity Notebook

The Write Stuff: Susie Meserve on Legacy, Fear, and The Creativity Notebook

October 3, 2013

When people ask what do you do, you tell them… ?

I say, “I’m a writer, and I teach.” I started telling people I was a writer fifteen years ago, on the advice of one of my teachers who told me it’s important to identify that way even if you’re aspiring/attempting/up-and-coming/unpublished. So I decided, I’m a writer. I have been ever since. Now I feel a little less like a fraud when I say it.

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