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Juan Felipe Herrera (born December 27, 1948 Fowler, California) is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera's experiences as the child of migrant farmers have strongly shaped his work, such as the children's book ''Calling the Doves'', which won the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award in 1997. Community and art have always been part of what has driven Herrera, beginning in the mid-seventies, when he was director of the ''Centro Cultural de la Raza'', an occupied water tank in Balboa Park that had been converted into an arts space for the community. Herrera’s publications include fourteen collections of poetry, prose, short stories, young adult novels and picture books for children with twenty-one books in total in the last decade. His 2007 volume ''187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007'' contains texts in both Spanish and English that examine the cultural hybridity that "revolve around questions of identity" on the U.S.-Mexico border. Herrera was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for ''Half the World in Light''. In 2012, he was appointed California Poet Laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown. In 2011, Herrera was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.〔http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/juan-felipe-herrera〕〔http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/juan-felipe-herrera 〕 In 2015, Herrera was appointed as the nation's first Chicana or Chicano poet laureate.〔http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/06/09/juan-felipe-herrera-named-nations-first-latino-poet-laureate/〕〔http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/06/09/juan-felipe-herrera-named-nations-first-latino-poet-laureate/ appointed as the nation's first Latino poet laureate〕 ==Background== The farm workers María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, Juan Felipe Herrera lived from crop to crop and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley and the Salinas Valley. Herrera graduated from San Diego High School in 1967 and received the Educational Opportunity Program scholarship to attend the University of California, Los Angeles〔http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1822〕 where he received his B.A. in Social Anthropology. Later, he received his Masters in Social Anthropology from Stanford University, and his Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. In 1990, he was a distinguished teaching fellow at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After serving as chair of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department at California State University, Fresno, in 2005,〔http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=62〕 Herrera joined the Creative Writing Department at University of California, Riverside, as the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair.〔http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/herrera/〕 He also became director of the Art and Barbara Culver Center for the Arts, a new multimedia space in downtown Riverside. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Juan Felipe Herrera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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