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A buoyant, breathtaking poem from Juan Felipe Herrera — brilliantly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Lauren Castillo — speaks to every dreaming he...
Voted a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Library Journal Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of the Year One of LitHub's most Anticipat...
Poems in English and Spanish
From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, one of the most prominent Chicano poets writing today, here are poems like sweet music Awarded the Pura B...
From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera comes the powerful journey of Chicano teen Lucky Z. A former skateboarder who's anything but lucky, he fin...
An inspiring tribute to Hispanic Americans who have made a positive impact on the world This visually stunning book showcases twenty Hispanic and Lati...
This bilingual memoir by a celebrated poet paints a vivid picture of his migrant farmworker childhood. Full-color illustrations....
“I wish I could find the words to tell you the story of our village after you were killed.” So begins Senegal Taxi, the new work by one of contemp...
Some things are close — cerca. Others are far — lejos. With sweet simplicity, this charming dual-language board book and its companion volume, Cer...
A poetic collage of voices, genres, and time-spaces. A display of power over language and rhythm. A postmodern performance of naked figures hanging in...
Poems
From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away. With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felip...
New and Selected Poems
Includes an audio CD of the author reading! For nearly four decades, Juan Felipe Herrera has documented his experience as a Chicano in the United Stat...
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A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspi...
In a collection of poetry, prose, journal entries, and even a screenplay, the Chicano poet fixes his gaze on his own life and times, invoking childhoo...
A "fin-de-siecle epic", Juan Felipe Herrera's After the Riots chronicles a ten-and-a-half hour love affair through the streets of Los Angeles, reveali...
The author recalls the year his parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school....
Juan Felipe Herrera, son of Mexican immigrants, is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., the nation's first Latino laureate....
The highlands of Chiapas are smoldering with death. In the winter of 1997, paramilitary agents ambushed and killed many Mayan villagers in Acteal, Chi...
El Canto de Las Palomas
Lyrical language depicts the childhood of a migrant farmworker....
New Latino Poetry
The Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new ...
An empowering story by former US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera about a young girl who uses her newfound superpowers to rescue her mamá from the U...
A Novel in Verse
A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart....
Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America
In a variety of narrative voices, poems, and a play, set at different times in history, the author presents a journey to the Maya Lowlands of Chiapas ...
Poems and stories by a Chicano writer. In Aviary, he writes: "Pedro Towers, is that you again? Looking / for certainties. Begin again--the arms first,...
Undocuments 1971-2007
Herrera provides a fresh and accessible perspective on the crucial human rights issue of immigration through his poetry, prose, and performance. Catch...
The author recalls the year when his farm worker parents settled down in the city so that he could go to school for the first time....
An Emergency Poem
Originally released as a bilingual collection in 1989 by Stephen Kessler's Alcatraz Editions, Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poems of AKRÍLICA startin...
In the reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shut down, Juan Felipe Herrera began a daily practice to draw and write mandala poems. T...
A Book of Lives
The gorgeous black and white line art inside this hefty little book instantly caught my eye. These linocut drawings were not the regular loteria image...
The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center
Hello, Goodbye, Hello documents the multifaceted role the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) at Montalvo Arts Center has played in the work and thinking of t...