Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/21/2016
5:30 pm
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Location
Light Hall Theater
900 W. College Avenue
- Silver City, NM
Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States
Juan Felipe Herrera will give a talk about his life and work at WNMU Light Hall
5:30 pm | Cocktail Meet and Greet on the Light Hall Patio
6:30 pm | Talk in Light Hall Auditorium
ADMISSION
FREE and open to the public. Seating is limited; Ensure your seat with a ticket available at WNMU Hunter Hall.
ABOUT
Juan Felipe Herrera is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2016) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many collections of poetry include Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also the author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate, Calling The Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; and Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
For more information, please contact JJ Amaworo Wilson: jjawilson@hotmail.com or 575-956-8758 or the WNMU Office of Cultural Affairs at 575-538-6469
CO-SPONSORED BY
Western Institute for Lifelong Learning, WNMU, WNMU Office of Cultural Affairs and the Southwest Festival of the Written Word.