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Michelle Bitting (born February, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet who was honored on March 8, 2012 with the position of Poet Laureate of Pacific Palisades, CA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Library Announces Pali Poet Laureate )〕 ==Life== A fourth generation Pacific Palisadian, Michelle Bitting studied theater at the University of California, Berkeley and pursued careers in dance and culinary arts before turning her focus to writing in 2001. She received her MFA in writing and poetry from Pacific University, Oregon in 2009. Bitting is the author of three collections of poetry: ''Notes to the Beloved'' (Winner of the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award, 2011), ''Good Friday Kiss'' (C&R Press, 2008), and ''Blue Laws'' (Finishing Line Press, 2007). ''Good Friday Kiss'' was chosen by Thomas Lux as the winner of the 2007 DeNovo Prize for 1st Book of Poetry.〔http://www.crpress.org/bitting.html〕 A selection of publications that have printed her poetry and fiction include: (''American Poetry Review'' ), (''Narrative Magazine'' ), (''Prairie Schooner'' ), (''Verse Daily'' ), (''Poetry Daily'' ), (''LA Weekly'' ), (''Rattle'' ), (''diode'' ), and (''The Cortland Review'' ). In collaboration with her husband, the actor Phil Abrams, Bitting has adapted a number of her works for the visual medium known as "poem films". Some of these projects have been presented by (''Atticus Review'' ), (''Cheek Teeth'' ), and (''Moving Poems'' ). Bitting has collaborated with the non-profit California Dance Institute to implement a poetry component within their inner city middle school performing arts program for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has taught poetry in the University of California, Los Angeles Writer’s Program,〔http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=407〕 and is also a California Poet in the Schools, serving hundreds of students in Southern California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to California Poets In the Schools )〕 Her poetry outreach work also includes teaching the incarcerated at Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, CA with grants from ''Poets and Writers Magazine''. Michelle Bitting currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Phil Abrams, and their two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michelle Bitting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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