Bio
Aire
Celeste Norell, whose given name means "Wind in the Heavens," grew
up in a series of suburban towns
and urban neighborhoods on both coasts. She
started writing poetry at age twelve,
but was drawn to study sociology at the
University
of California at Santa Cruz. Currently, she is working
on a master's
degree in psychology at Walden
University.
Aire served as the Columns Editor for poeticdiversity: the litzine of los angeles,
which published her book reviews, poetry, and fiction regularly
from 2003-6. She
has been contributing her editing talents to the Sistah Vegan
project, a forth-
coming anthology of Black-identified females who practice veganism.
Her work has
also appeared in the San Gabriel
Valley Poetry Quarterly
and
The
Messenger, as well as the online
poetry journal, The
Blue House. She has
been anthologized in Literary Angles: The Second Year of
Poeticdiversity and
The
Other Side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace.
She published her first
chapbook, The Ugly Duckling & Other
American
Tragedies, in 2004.
Aire has performed as a featured poet at such diverse venues
as the South Bay
Cowboy Music &
Poetry Festival, the Equal
Writes Bookstore in Long Beach,
Sunset Hall in Los Angeles, ArtistSalonRAW, and Satsuma Gallery in NoHo.
She has been featured at
the Rapp Saloon, the Velocity Cafe, and Unurban
Coffeeshop in Santa Monica. She has
enjoyed venturing beyond L.A. for features
at the Coffee Cartel in
Redondo Beach, the Santa Catalina
Branch of the
Pasadena
Library, the Home Brew Coffee Company
in San Dimas, the Glendora Public
Library, the Gypsy Den in Costa Mesa, the Alta in
Newport Beach, and the Ugly
Mug Caffe in Orange, California. She was a featured
performer at benefit shows
at Kulak's
Woodshed in North Hollywood
and Flor y Canto in Highland
Park.
KPFK listeners had
the chance to hear Aire's
poetry on two episodes of the
Poet's
Cafe, a poetry performance and conversation show hosted by M.C.
Bruce.
Aire edited and published (on tree-free paper
using soy ink) an anthology of
environmental poetry, Cracked
Pavement & Plastic Trees: Our Gifts To Future
Generations.
She has produced several
group readings
to
promote the anthology
and raise awareness about the peak
oil crisis, permaculture, and
sustainability.
Aire has been involved
with WorldFest as a featured poet, MC,
fundraiser, and
poetry festival organizer since 2003.
She has also been annually raising
money
and sending
supplies to Lakota
children and elders in South Dakota, who continue to endure extreme
poverty.
Please contact Aire if you are able to
help.
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