Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.

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• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writi

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  A pen is different from the pad, the key, moving your fingers across a screen. I like both. I like

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line in

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

• Juan Felipe Herrera:

  My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never