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An Evening with Juan Felipe Herrera

Thursday, March 15, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)

300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33132 United States

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Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate in the USA, is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you’re in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them — to Jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move. And there’s no stopping once you’re a Jabberwalker, writing fast, fast, fast, scribble-poem-burbles-on-the-run. Scribble what you see! Scribble what you hear! It’s all out there — vámonos!

Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performance artist, and activist. The son of migrant farmworkers, he was the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015-2017, and the first Mexican-American to hold the position. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, in addition to short stories, young adult novels, and children’s literature. Juan Felipe Herrera lives in California.

Free and open to all ages!

Free

Other

Language
English
Occurrence
All Year

Who's Attending

11 people are attending An Evening with Juan Felipe Herrera

  • Nilsa Rivera
  • Suzanne Jewell
  • Jubi Arriola-Headley
  • Lisa Friedman-Chavez
  • Christina Sirtak Mabaquiao
  • Jesus Sierra
  • Yaddyra Peralta
  • Sarah Korb

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