A Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera, 21st Poet Laureate of the United States
Listen in to 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, interviewed by then Notre Dame MFA candidate in poetry and graduate student Luis Lopez-Maldonado. As a poet, educator, and writer, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recognizes Herrera for “uplifting Chicanx culture and amplifying shared experiences of solidarity and empowerment.” In this oral history conversation Herrera and Lopez-Maldonado uncover the insight to be gained from playing with language, the value of nurturing one’s art accompanied by close friends, and why both individuals and communities should answer the call to write.
The Letras Latinas Oral History Project produces video interviews of Latinx writers visiting the Notre Dame campus with the aim of making them available as an online resource for faculty, students, scholars, and the community at large. For more information, please visit the Letras Latinas website.
More Like This
Related PostsLet your curiosity roam! If you enjoyed the insights here, we think you might enjoy discovering the following publications.
Hope’s Song
‘Upon whom the ends of the ages have come’: Byzantine Perspectives on the Theology of History
A Conversation with Emma Trelles
Preservation Today
A Conversation with Rigoberto González
Dante’s Chorographies: From the Territory to the Comedy
Before the Building: Ideas Behind the Design
Alexandra Razskazoff, soprano & Dror Baitel, piano
