I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.

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• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I gave my voice to poetry.

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, de

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• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because

• Mary Jo White:

  The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.

• Mary Jo White:

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