| Seismic Salon with Juan Felipe Herrera
THIS THURSDAY! April 29th, 5-6:30 pm PST
Zoom
Seismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. Thank you to these authors for donating their time!
To close out National Poetry Month, Litquake is thrilled to welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to our Seismic Salon, where he will discuss poetry, his work, and career. Herrera also served as California State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. His many published collections include the recent Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. $100 | 