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Rick Noguchi (born 1967) is an American poet and children’s book writer. He is the author of The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry and The Wave He Caught (Pearl Editions, 1995), winner of the Pearl Prize. He also wrote the Flowers From Mariko (Lee and Low Press, 2006), with Deneen Jenks. His work has been widely anthologized in Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation; Place as Purpose: Poetry from the Western States; Motion: American Sports Poems; American Poetry: The Next Generation; The New Young American Poets: An Anthology; Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poets. Noguchi was born in Los Angeles and raised in Culver City. He received his B.A. in English from California State University, Long Beach in 1990 where he also minored in American Indian Studies. He earned his M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University in 1993 and his M.B.A. from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in 2008. He currently serves as a program officer in the arts at The James Irvine Foundation.(1) His second collection of poetry The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo is an extended metaphor of life (2). It is considered his manifesto for living a life of balance in an imbalanced world. He began writing at an early age where he experimented with language, ideas, and communication to emotionally disturb his language arts teachers. In college he was influenced by the Long Beach school of poets including Ray Zepeda, Elliot Fried, Charles Webb, Gerald Locklin, and Lisa Glatt. Noguchi went on to study with Alberto Rios, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jeanine Savard, and Norman Dubie in the graduate writing program at Arizona State University. Other noted graduates include Albino Carillo, Lee Barnes, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Tayari Jones, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Oliver de la Paz, and Steve Scafidi. Noguchi’s poetry has appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including ARTLIFE, The Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Bamboo Ridge, and Tsunami, among others. His work also appears online at American Artists (3). He has been interviewed by Ron Carlson for Book & Co. on KAET-TV, Michael Grant for Hrizon on KAET-TV, and Bridgett Carrol on Arizona Artists, Writers, and Others. Phoenix Public Access Cable. References 1.	The James Irvine Foundation website www.irvine.org 2.	Interview on Books & Co., KAET-TV, 1997. 3.	www.americanartists.org/art/article_poems_by_rick_noguchi.htm External links •	Audio: Rick Noguchi Reading on From the Fishhouse