American - Poet | December 27, 1948 -
The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a lot of good things. Perhaps working in groups, working on poetry.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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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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What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.
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I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
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I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'
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Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'
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Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.
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Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.
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My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.
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Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
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As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.
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Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
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