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The calling came to me while I languished
in my room, while I whittled away my youth
in jail cells and damp barrio fields.
Chicano/a poets have emerged as major literary figures in the United States with the recent appointments of Juan Felipe Herrera as California Poet Laureate (although he just finished his two-year term) and
April is National Poetry Month, “Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 ...
As the new Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, I’m excited about National Poetry Month, which every year falls on April.
“Well, write poetry, for God’s sake, it’s the only thing that matters.” —e.e. cummings
Locating Love Poetry in the Literature Department
When I received the call last September from Mayor Eric Garcetti that I’d been chosen as the new Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, I had to keep this quiet until the official announcement in October.
Thanks for sticking with me all month long. I hope you liked the poems. Last but not least is an entry from Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay.
And now for a classic "you'll miss me when I'm gone" poem, courtesy of William Butler Yeats. Yeats was an impressive man--poet, playwright, Irish patriot, spooky occult guy, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Valentine's Day will be here before you know it! So here's a sweet treat for you courtesy of Sara Teasdale, an American poet who lived from 1884-1933. Teasdale (pictured above) hailed from St. Louis and moved to New York in 1916 with her husband Ernst Filsinger.