Born in Fowler, California — learned corridos and rhymes from his mother, Lucha, on the farm working roads and small towns. His father, Felipe, played harmonica telling tales of work in early 1900’s Wyoming. He graduated from UCLA, Stanford and the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. His awards include the Guggenheim Poetry Fellowship, the National Book Critic’s Circle Award, LA Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award and recently, the International Latino Book Award. He is Emeritus Professor from Fresno State’s Chicano and Latin American Studies program and UC-Riverside’s Department of Creative Writing. In the last decade he has served as a Chancellor of the Board of the Academy of American Poets, California’s Poet Laureate, and the Poet Laureate of the United States. Recent book is Every Day We Get More Illegal.
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For Marvin Bell
Friends, colleagues, and admirers celebrate Marvin Bell in his 84th year....
Where I Used to Walk
A poem by Juan Felipe Herrera in memorium for the officers killed in Baton Rouge...
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem
A memorial poem by the Poet Laureate on the passing of Muhammed Ali...
Radio Hour: Mansplaining, Nature Noir, and Obscure Hollywood Novels
Nina Revoyr talks about her new backpacking thriller "Lost Canyon," and LARB senior editor Sarah Mesle explains "mansplaining."...
Hey Phil
An obituary poem for Philip Levine by Juan Felipe Herrera....
And if the man with the choke-hold
And if the man with the choke-hold pulls the standing man down...
Anthropoetry
IN RENATO ROSALDO’s The Day of Shelly’s Death, the inner and outer elements of the poem — that is, the ...
WANDA COLEMAN, 1946-2013
THE POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH CENTRAL, the most extraordinary woman on the Los Angeles poetry scene, is dead, just a week ...
For Jayne Cortez, R.I.P.
It was you .......
Jack Gilbert, 1925 - 2012
...the hard-hooks that fold you down to your knees......
Perched on Nothingness
Image: St. Paul, Minnesota: RNC 2008 (detail) © Joaquín Ramón Herrera Juan Felipe Herrera ...
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