Juan Felipe Herrera
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April 15, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews The PEN Literary Award winners have been announced! The 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have also been announced—recent Neustadt juror Valeria Luiselli won the fict... -
September 18, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews In this new video interview, United States poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera converses about poetry and the poet’s role in American culture today. The Man Booker Prize r... -
June 12, 2015 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed the poet laureate of the United States this week. Herrera is the first Latino poet to receive this honor. Herrera also...
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John Feinstein, when he wrote The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a...
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Manoomin. It is the first Ojibwe word I will learn. It means wild rice, or “food that grows on water.” The...
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for Rachelle 4/27/2020
Our moms were widows before they met our fathers.
Their hair blue-black, their...
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(1) On the longest day of the longest year, I did not sleep. I stood as witness with the...
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Series editor’s note: Kwame Dawes’s poem is a powerful piece to start off the Black Voices series,...
