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Tag: Juan Felipe Herrera

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Poet, writer recognizes friend as new U.S. poet laureate

by El Tecolote Staff June 22, 2015July 7, 2015

I arrived from El Salvador in 1980. I had left behind friends, family, strikes, the dead, a civil war that even though I had left it behind, it was never too far away. My soul, my heart, my spirit were sad. “Don’t you even think of coming back?” my mother’s letters would say. I used […]

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