New U.S. Poet Laureate from the valley

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