Retired Fresno State professor Juan Felipe Herrera is the first Latino US Poet Laureate
Herrera has published 29 books while teaching at Fresno State and UC Riverside He was born in Fowler to migrant farmworkers
Herrera served as California’s Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014 He is the second Poet Laureate from Fresno, following former Fresno State colleague Phillip Levine, who passed away in January
We will hear from Herrera and have more on his career on later editions of Eyewitness News