Every Day We Get More Illegal
- 88 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope.
Juan Felipe Herrera Books
Juan Felipe Herrera's writing is deeply shaped by his experiences as the child of migrant farmworkers. His work, encompassing poetry, prose, and children's books, consistently draws from his lived reality and a profound connection to community. As a poet, performer, and educator, Herrera infuses his art with activism and a distinctive voice that bridges personal narrative with broader social concerns. His literary contributions are marked by an authentic engagement with life and a commitment to art as a force for connection.
In Rebozos there are celebrations, revelations of hemispheric unity, voice-stories from New Mexico, feathers & guitars, chakira, kupurisol - the essence of the sun.
Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space.