Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Announces His Project, “La Casa de Colores”
“La Casa de Colores” also will include a monthly feature on resources at the Library of Congress. “El Jardín,” a feature that includes videos, poems and blog posts, will show Herrera interacting with and responding to select items throughout the Library.
Washington, DC.- September 8, 2015.- In his first official appearance as the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Juan Felipe Herrera announced today at the Library of Congress National Book Festival the official project of his laureateship, La Casa de Colores—including an invitation to Americans to contribute a verse to an “epic poem” about the American experience.
