Poet Juan Felipe Herrera - 187 Reasons Why Mexicanos Cannot Cross the Border

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He is a wonderful poet, heart and soul. Forging new identities Mexican, American.

Juan Felipe Herrera (born December 27, 1948, in Fowler, California)is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist and teacher. The only son of Lucha Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern California and the Salinas Valley. 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 award in 1997. In the mid-seventies, when he was director of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, an occupied water tank in Balboa Park was converted into an arts space for the community.