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10 de jun. de 2015 · Juan Felipe Herrera won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008 for his collection Half of the World in Light. Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts Poetry readers, prepare yourselves for a passing ...
“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
8 de fev. de 2022 · Juan Felipe Herrera ha escrito una gran cantidad de libros en diversos géneros: poesías, cuentos infantiles, novelas para adultos jóvenes y antologías de historias breves, entre muchos otros. Su libro para niños “Calling the doves/El canto de las palomas” es un relato autobiográfico sobre su infancia en California como niño de familia migrante.
Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California, in 1948. He is the author of 30 books of poetry, novels for young adults, and collections for children. Herrera held the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, where he taught until retiring in 2015.
12 de abr. de 2022 · Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2015-2017. Photo courtesy of Blue Flower Arts. On June 10, 2015, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Juan Felipe Herrera as the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Juan Felipe Herrera is the son of farmworkers, a former United States Poet Laureate and California Poet Laureate, and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award, two Latino Hall of Fame Awards, and a Pushcart Prize.
The son of migrant farm workers, Juan Felipe Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and he earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His numerous poetry collections include Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (2008), 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 (2007 ...
