juan felipe herrera
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Juan Felipe Herrera was born in Fowler, California. He has received fellowships and grants from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Stanford Chicano Fellows Program, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Herrera is the author of many collections of poetry, including Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights, 2015); Senegal Taxi (University of Arizona Press, 2013); Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008), a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971–2007 (City Lights, 2007); and Crashboomlove (University of New Mexico Press, 1999), a novel in verse, which received the Americas Award. Over the past three decades, he has founded a number of performance ensembles, and has taught poetry, art, and performance in community art galleries and correctional facilities. He has taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and served as chair of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department at CSU-Fresno. In 2015, Herrera made history by being named Poet Laureate of the United States, for which he launched the project La Casa de Colores, which invites citizens to contribute to an epic poem. Herrera also holds the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside, and he is director of the Art and Barbara Culver Center for the Arts, a multimedia space in downtown Riverside, California. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2011. Fuente: Click here |
Juan Felipe Herrera nació en Fowler, California. Ha recibido becas y subvenciones de parte de la Conferencia Breadloaf Writers, el Consejo de las Artes de California, el Fondo Nacional para las Artes, el Standford Chicano Fellows Program, y la Universidad de California en Berkeley.
Herrera es autor de multiples colecciones de poesía, incluyendo Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights, 2015); Senegal Taxi (University of Arizona Press, 2013); Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008), beneficiario del premio PEN/Beyond Margins; 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 (City Lights, 2007); y Crashboomlove (University of New Mexico Press, 1999), una novela en verso, la cual recibió el Premio Americas. En las últimas tres decadas, ha fundado un número de presentaciones artísticas, y ha enseñado poesía, arte, y actuación en galerias de arte para la comunidad y reformatorios. Ha enseñado en el Taller de Escritores de la Universidad de Iowa y ocupó el cargo de director para los Estudios Chicanos y Latinoamericanos en el Departamento de CSU-Fresno. En el 2015, Herrera hizo historia al ser nombrado el Poeta Laureado de Estados Unidos, y lanzó el proyecto La Casa de Colores, el cual invita a los ciudadanos a contribuir a un poema épico. Herrera también ocupa el cargo de Catedrático Titular Tomás Rivera en el Departamento de Escritura Creativa en UC Riverside, y es el director del Centro de Arte y Barbara Culver para las Artes, un espacio de multimedios en el centro de Riverside, California. Fue elejido Canciller de la Academia de Poetas Americanos en el 2011. Source: Click here |