Quotes by : Juan Felipe Herrera

I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on....

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you....

I gave my voice to poetry.

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political....

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing,....

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing....

The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do a....

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're....