Michelle Naka Pierce (born 1968 in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

, and raised in

Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...

, NM) is a half Japanese/half American poet. She teaches experimental poetry and writing pedagogy at

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself as B ...

and is the director of the

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is a school of Naropa University, located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It was founded in 1974 by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, as part of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s 100-year experim ...

, founded by

Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...

and

Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activ ...

in 1974. Pierce is the author of four books, including ''Continuous Frieze Bordering ed', awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize (Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2012). __TOC__

Published works

Books

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TRI/VIA
', co-written with Veronica Corpuz (Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH, 2003). *
Beloved Integer
' ( Bootstrap/PUB LUSH, 2007). *
She, A Blueprint
', with art by Sue Hammond West (

BlazeVOX Books BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX ooks'', is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, most of which fall within the sphere ...

, 2011). *
Continuous Frieze Bordering ed">Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red
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Chapbooks

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48 Minutes Left
' (Belladonna Books">Belladonna*, 2003). *
As Transient As Square Or Inside 32
' (Tir Aux Pigeons, 2008). *
Symptom of Color
' (Dusie, 2011).

External links

Official Site of Michelle Naka Pierce

Naropa Faculty Page

1968 births Living people American women poets American poets of Asian descent American women writers of Asian descent American writers of Japanese descent 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1960s-stub