For Marvin Bell
Friends, colleagues, and admirers celebrate Marvin Bell in his 84th year.
Friends, colleagues, and admirers celebrate Marvin Bell in his 84th year.
A poem by Juan Felipe Herrera in memorium for the officers killed in Baton Rouge
A memorial poem by the Poet Laureate on the passing of Muhammed Ali
An obituary poem for Philip Levine by Juan Felipe Herrera.
And if the man with the choke-hold pulls the standing man down
IN RENATO ROSALDO’s The Day of Shelly’s Death, the inner and outer elements of the poem — that is, the poetics of eyes, notes, hearts, bodies...
THE POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH CENTRAL, the most extraordinary woman on the Los Angeles poetry scene, is dead, just a week after her 67th birthday...
It was you ....
the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees......
Image: St. Paul, Minnesota: RNC 2008 (detail) © Joaquín Ramón Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera was recently named the Poet Laureate...