Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Michelle Naka Pierce, Alumni, Continuous Frieze Bordering Red

Michelle Naka Pierce
Received her MA in English (Creative Writing) from UNM in 1999 and her BA in English Literature in 1994.

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of several books and chapbooks, including She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) and Symptom of Color (Dusie, 2011). Pierce's fourth book Continuous Frieze Bordering Red was recently awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor's Prize (Fordham University Press, 2012) and documents the migratory patterns of the hybrid as she travels the floating borders in Rothko's Seagram murals. Here is a link to a review: http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2012/04/24/review-michelle-naka-pierces-continuous-frieze-bordering-red/
She will be reading from and presenting on this book at the international Lex-ICON Conference in Mulhouse, France in June 2012: http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/search/label/programme
Pierce is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. http://michellenakapierce.blogspot.com/

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