Marisela Norte
Marisela Norte is an American writer, poet and artist living in Los Angeles. She is known for her poetry 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.
Also recorded as the Cultural Ambassador of East L.A. · the Poet Laureate of Boyle Heights · the Muse on the Bus
Marisela Norte
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- 1955
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- United States
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- poet · writer
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She has also written for ChismeArte, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metro Transit Authority. She has been referred to as the "unofficial poet laureate of East Los Angeles".
Marisela Norte (born 1955) is an American poet and writer.
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- 1.Gurza, Agustin. It's not trash. It's bits of downtown few notice. LA Times.
- 2.Sonksen, Mike. Southern California's Seven Women of Vision. KCET. 19 July 2013.
- 3.Voices of LA. Marisela Norte.
- 4.Rodriguez, Luis J. East LA's Venerable Self Help Graphics Arts Center to Close in Six Months. Luis Javier Rodriguez's Blog. 2008-07-10.
- 5.Heibel, Amy. In Your Presence, by Marisela Norte. LACMA.
- 6.Zeller, Heidi. Reflections on Union Station: an essay by Marisela Norte. The Source. 13 June 2014.
- 7.Guevara, Rubén Funkahuatl. Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer. Univ of California Press. 2018-04-13. 978-0-520-96966-7.
- 8.Studios on the Park presents 'Counter Narrative' with recently discovered Chicano photography. Paso Robles Daily News. 2020-09-01.
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