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The Fresno Arts Council recently announced the city’s fifth poet laureate, Megan Anderson Bohigian. In her new role, Anderson Bohigian says she hopes to facilitate healing around the pandemic with a community involved poetry writing project. FM89’s News Director Alice Daniel reached out to her to participate in our own …
Read More »Fresno’s New Poet Laureate Wrote Her First Poem At Age 7: It’s What She Wants For Other Kids Too
On Thursday, Fresno State alumna Marisol Baca was named Fresno’s fourth poet laureate. She is the first woman to hold the title. Baca is an English instructor at Fresno City College, and the co-founder of the Women Writers of Color-Central Valley collective. Her debut book, “Tremor,” published last year, won …
Read More »Retired Fresno State Professor New U.S. Poet Laureate
There is a new U.S. Poet Laureate and he is right here in the valley. He is in the same company as Robert Frost and Philip Levine. Retired Fresno State professor Juan Felipe Herrera is the first Latino, U-S Poet Laureate. His experience growing up in the fields of the …
Read More »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 …
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