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Juan Felipe Herrera reading “Jackrabbits, Green Onions & Witches Stew” as part of Dear Poet, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month 2015. 1948–Poet Laureate of the United States, 2015-2017 read poems by this poet. Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California, on December 27, 1948.
The essays in this work delve deeply into Juan Felipe Herrera’s oeuvre and provide critical perspectives on his body of work. They include discussion of Chicanx indigeneity, social justice, environmental imaginaries, Herrera’s knack for challenging theory and poetics, transborder experiences, transgeneric constructions, and children’s and young adult literature.
8 gen 2016 · Growing up, Juan Felipe Herrera worked the fields alongside his Mexican farm worker parents in California. Now, at 67, Juan Felipe is the first Latino to be named poet laureate of the United States.
Calling the Doves is Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's story of his migrant farmworker childhood. In delightful and lyrical language, he recreates the joy of eating breakfast under the open sky, listening to Mexican songs in the little trailer house his father built, and celebrating with other families at a fiesta in the mountains.
“Juan Felipe Herrera, the country’s twenty-first poet laureate, has been one of the United States’ most prolific and most inventive poets/writers and one of poetry’s greatest communitarians. Finally, a collection of essays that gives his work, including his children’s literature, the critical attention it has long merited.”—Brenda Cárdenas, author of Boomerang
12 gen 2023 · The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that Juan Felipe Herrera is the 2023 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry. Named for Robert Frost, and first given in 1930, the Frost Medal is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American poetry and is awarded annually at the discretion of ...
10 giu 2015 · JUAN FELIPE HERRERA: I was born in Fowler, a few miles from Fresno. And as soon as I was 29 days old, we got back on the road and went to the next (speaking Spanish) in the next town.
