This marvelous book, so light on all its hands and feet, so assured in the delicacy of its unwavering precision… Beloved Integer presents its visitors/voyagers with a complex adaptive system of memory and desire, a kind of visible city rich in “variably negotiated moments of production,” in “oceanic felling,” in “dialogues in solitude,” in easy energy and hard-earned matter, fearlessly held up to the light, which adumbrates the deepest territories of the heart.—Laird Hunt
TRI/VIA
Michelle Naka Pierce & Veronica Corpuz
Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH, 2003
Cover art by Barbieo Barros Gizzi
This book is a delight. That poetry can blast binaries to smithereens and follow the road of three (or more) is demonstrated with intelligence, wit and humor. The intellectual erotics of this epistolary conversation is magnified by an eros of metamorphic, hi-lo linguistic and gender-genre play. TRI/VIA is a collaborative act of love with its light and dark forces registered through a languagescape of ancient to contemporary lit, philosophy, science, mathematics, even the ubiquitous culture of the questionnaire. It continually surprises!
—Joan Retallack
Interview about Beloved Integer
M. Perel. Tarpaulin Sky
Pedagogy Research
“The Spaces Between: A Conversation with Kass Fleisher.” Transformations, 2007.
“Transforming Mind & Habit: A Dialogue with Thalia Field.” Teachers and Writers Magazine, 2004.
“Community & the Classroom: A Dialogue with Juliana Spahr.” Rain Taxi , 2004.
“Creating Dialogue: What the English Curriculum Doesn’t Teach.” Co-authored with Denise
Stephenson and Bob Mayberry. Sharing Pedagogies: Students & Teachers Write about Dialogic Practices, 1997.
Edited Journals Bombay Gin 27, Co-Editor in Chief with Veronica Corpuz
Empty Set 26, Co-Editor with Veronica Corpuz
Blue Mesa Review 11, Editorial Board
Conceptions Southwest, Editorial Board
CONFERENCES and INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Details, A Lover’s Discourse, and the Uncertainty Principle: The Theoretical Framework of
Beloved Integer.” St. Catherine’s College, May 2008.
“Complexity & Contradiction in the Hybrid.” Summer Writing Program, Naropa U., June 2007.
“Tri / Via and its Influences.” Denver U., April 2006.
“The Theoretical Framework of Tri / Via.” College of St. Catherine, April 2005.
“The Writing of Tri / Via.” College of St. Catherine’s Poetry Circle, April 2005.
“Promoting Cohesion and Coherence: Make It So.” Co-presented with Melissa Root. RMMLA, September 2004.
“Collaboration of Tri / Via.” Bard College, April 2004.
“New Initiatives for Writing Across the Curriculum in the Writing Center.” CWTC, February 2004.
“Awakenings, Bridges, Entry Points: Curriculum Across the Writing.” CWTC, February 2004.
“Margins of the Margins: Contemplative Techniques in the Writing Center.” CWTC, February 2003.
“Text and Image: The Third Mind.” Moderator. Summer Writing Program, Naropa, July 2000.
“Disjunctive Techniques & Varied Surfaces in the Hybrid Poem.” CSU, May 2000.
“‘Meaning(s)’ and Movement in the Indeterminate Narrative: The Poetry of Gertrude Stein,
Frank O’Hara, and Michael Palmer.” UNM, May 1999.
“Discovery, Less Rational Ways of Knowing, and The Image.” UNM, February 1999.
“Helping Students Write about a Text.” UNM, August 1998.
“Descent into Word.” La Puerta Poetry Workshop, UNM, October 1997.
“Effective Team-Teaching in Oral Communication Classes.” Co-presented with Miyazaki Sensei. JET Seminar, CLAIR (Kobe, Japan), January 1996.
READINGS and PERFORMANCES
Whrrds and In Stereo Reading Series, Naropa U., November 2008
Tri-Jet Reading Series, Trident, Boulder, July 2008
Poetry Circle, College of St. Catherine, May 2008
Beloved Integer Book Release, Naropa U., April 2008
Women of Naropa Reading, Naropa U., November 2007
Yellow Pine Reading Series, Boulder, September 2007
Summer Writing Program, Naropa U., June 2007
Women of Naropa Reading, Naropa, September 2006.
Tendrel Reading, Laughing Goat, March 2006.
Writing and Poetics Departmental Reading, Naropa, February 2006.
SASE: The Write Place Reading Series, College of St. Catherine, April 2005.
Faculty Reading, Language & Thinking Workshop, Bard College, August 2004.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Poetry Reading, Urban Space Gallery, June 2004.
Ashbery Reading Series, Bard College, April 2004.
Left Hand Reading Series, Left Hand Bookstore, February 2004.
Belladonna* Reading Series, Bluestockings Bookstore, November 2003.
Tri / Via Book Release, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, April 2003.
Summer Writing Program Reading, Naropa, June 2000.
Summer Writing Program Reading, Naropa, June 1999.
Southwest Symposium, UNM, April 1999.
UNM Writer’s Workshop, UNM, December 1997.
“La Puerta Poetry Reading,” UNM, October 1997.
“New Voices: The Beats and Their Contemporaries,” UNM, December 1996.
UNM Writer’s Workshop, Tulane Book Exchange, December 1996.
Conceptions Southwest, Outpost Performance Space, April 1993.
Conceptions Southwest, Salt of the Earth Bookstore, October 1992.
COURSES TAUGHT First-Year Writing and Research
Art of the Scholar
The Writer’s Craft
Writing Seminar I: Art of the Engaged Writer
Pedagogy
Writing Pedagogy Practicum
Writing Pedagogy Seminar: Composition & Writing Center Theory
Writing Pedagogy Seminar: Creative Writing Theory
Poetry and Innovative Writing
Contemporary American Poetry
Currency of the New Millennium
Experimental Women Writers
Hybrid Forms
Poetic Operation
Workshop in Poetry and Prose
Summer Writing Program
Am Not Amnesia
Techniques of Disjunction
Independent Studies Collaborative Poetics
Composition & Creative Writing Pedagogy
Exploration of Prose Writing
Hybridity Literature
History, Theory, and Practice of Teaching Creative Writing
Women of Color in Literature
HONORS AND AWARDS Sabbatical, Naropa, Spring 2009
Faculty Development Grant, Naropa, 2008-2009
Faculty Development Grant, Naropa, 2007-2008
Faculty Development Grant, Naropa, 2002–2003
Graduate Honors Scholarship, Naropa, 2000–2001
Ted Berrigan Poetry Award, Naropa, 2000
Aimee Grunberger Poetry Award, Naropa, 2000
MA Thesis Distinction, UNM, 1999
American Academy of Poets, Finalist, UNM, 1999
Blue Mesa Review Poetry Award, UNM, 1998
Michelle Naka Pierce
