Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera (born on December 27, 1948) is an American poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry.Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book ''Calling the Doves'', which won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 1997. Community and art have always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-1970s, when he was director of the ''Centro Cultural de la Raza'', an occupied water tank in Balboa Park that had been converted into an arts space for the community.
Herrera’s publications include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and picture books for children, with twenty-one books in total in the last decade. His 2007 volume ''187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007'' contains texts in both Spanish and English that examine the cultural hybridity that "revolve around questions of identity" on the U.S.-Mexico border. Herrera was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for ''Half the World in Light''. In 2012, he was appointed California Poet Laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown.
In 2011, Herrera was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2015, Herrera was appointed as the nation's first Chicano or, more broadly, Latino poet laureate.
On June 11, 2016, Herrera was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oregon State University. In August 2022, Juan Felipe Herrera Elementary School opened as part of Fresno Unified School District. Provided by Wikipedia
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Laughing out loud, I fly : poems in English and Spanish / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Lotería cards and fortune poems : a book of lives / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Love after the riots / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Akrilica / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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CrashBoomLove : a novel in verse / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Downtown boy / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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CrashBoomLove : a novel in verse / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Calling the doves / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Thunderweavers = Tejedoras de rayos / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Mayan drifter : Chicano poet in the lowlands of America / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Cinnamon girl : letters found inside a cereal box / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Rebozos of love//we have woven//sudor de pueblos//on our back : [cantos / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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The roots of a thousand embraces : dialogues / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Calling the doves = El canto de las palomas / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Senegal taxi / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Cinnamon girl : letters found inside a cereal box / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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Senegal taxi / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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187 reasons mexicanos can't cross the border : undocuments, 1971-2007 / by Herrera, Juan Felipe
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