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Bookmark or Share- Juan Felipe Herrera | The Poetry FoundationThe son of farmworkers, poet Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California, in 1948. He is a graduate of UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. During the last 50 years, Herrera has dedicated his life to poetry, community, art, and teaching.
- Juan Felipe Herrera | National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe first Latino poet to serve as California’s poet laureate (2012-2014), and then as the Library of Congress’s Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (2015-2017), Herrera was a writer of significant accomplishment—so perhaps crafting verse in communion with a teenager’s art might be surprising.
- Juan Felipe Herrera - WikipediaJuan Felipe Herrera (born on December 27, 1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, toonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. [1] He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry.
- Juan Felipe Herrera: Selections | The Poetry FoundationFor Juan Felipe Herrera, a recipient of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the first Chicano to be named US poet laureate, migration is both his biography and a major component of his poetic style.
- Juan Felipe Herrera - Poetry CenterJuan Felipe Herrera. In 2015 Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the 21st United States Poet Laureate, the first Mexican American to hold the position.
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