Marisela Norte is an
American
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** American ancestry, pe ...
writer, poet and artist living in
Los Angeles
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. She is known for her
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
that explores the unseen city. Her book ''Peeping Peeping Tom Tom Girl'' was published by
City Works Press in 2008, and her work can be found in numerous anthologies including ''Microphone Fiends'', ''Bordered Sexualities: Bodies on the Verge of a Nation'', ''The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place'', ''Bear Flag Republic'', ''American Studies in a Time of Danger'', ''Rara Avis'', ''American Quarterly'', and ''Rolling Stone's Women of Rock''. She has also written for
ChismeArte
ChismeArte was an avant-garde Chicano magazine published by the LA Latino Writers Association (LALWA) and produced by the Concilio de Arte Popular (The People's Art Council), a California statewide arts advocacy group of Chicano arts organizations ...
, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...
and the Metro Transit Authority.
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Living people
21st-century American poets
Artists from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Hispanic and Latino American women in the arts
Poets from California
Hispanic and Latino American poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers
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