Jun 11 2015
Juan Felipe Herrera will become the first Hispanic American U.S. poet laureate when he is sworn in today.
He learned to love poetry by singing songs about the Mexican Revolution with his mother, a migrant farmworker in California.
Herrera, aged 66, has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including "Half of the World in Light," a dazzling selection of his verse and prose poems that won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also worked as an actor, playwright and musician, and he has published award-winning fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults.
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