[Crwt-undergrad-info] [CW-Grad] Frost Medal

[Tom Lutz]

"Previous winners of the award include Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Lucille
Clifton, N. Scott Momaday, and most recently Sharon Olds." Not bad company!

Juan Felipe will be at Writers Week in 1128 INTN tomorrow at 4:00 pm or
online at  <goog_1500106089>https://www.crowdcast.io/c/ww2023/LyACH

Today:

Morgan Talty, David Tromblay, and Ramona Emerson at 1:00pm :
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/ww2023/ncfFt

And Charmain Craig and Susan Straight, with Mike Sonksen's tribute to Mike
Davis at 2:30. Live 1128 INTN and online:
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/ww2023/VxsXI


On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:33 PM Allison Hedge Coke <allisonh at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Has anyone mentioned the latest award (perhaps, but who's counting), our
> beloved Emeritus Rivera Chair, 2022-2023 UCR Dickson Professor, CA Poet
> Laureate, US Poet Laureate, from farmworker family poet/musician/performer
> Juan Felipe Herrera, a 2023 Writers Week author, has been honored with?
>
> <https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/2023-frost-medalist>
> Frost Medalist, Poetry Society
> <https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/2023-frost-medalist>
>
> Offering (belated) congratulations on this sweetest day!
>
> The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that *Juan Felipe
> Herrera *is the 2023 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished
> lifetime achievement in poetry. Named for Robert Frost, and first given in
> 1930, the Frost Medal is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in
> American poetry and is awarded annually at the discretion of the PSA's
> Board of Governors. Previous winners of the award include Wallace Stevens,
> Marianne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, John
> Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, N. Scott Momaday, and most recently Sharon Olds.
>
> *The Frost Medal citation from the Poetry Society of America’s Board of
> Governors reads:*
>
> Juan Felipe Herrera does not write poems so much as inhabit them. “Poetry
> is where I live,” he writes, and he lives with a remarkable vibrancy,
> generosity, and compassion. His poems move as he moves—through nature,
> through working-class communities of color, through political
> protests—though it would be more accurate to say he moves *with* them,
> for while Herrera is a keen observer he is never just looking on. His poems
> are acts of solidarity, a kind of extended family gathering, especially for
> Latinx, Indigenous, and other communities of color. “With the poem, I can
> design a little corner for my families that have passed to live on, and for
> those brutalized by society to continue and be honored—to generate
> kindness.” Drawing on disparate sources, from European Modernism to
> Mesoamerican traditions to popular culture, Herrera creates a poetic voice
> that is both deeply embedded and wholly original. “Poetry,” he writes, “has
> gills and spears, spells and corn offerings, saxophones, tambourines and
> dinner tables—the sky liquid of a Jimi Hendrix guitar.” The Poetry Society
> of America is delighted and proud to award the Frost Medal, our highest
> honor, to Juan Felipe Herrera, a poet of enormous heart and infinite
> invention.
> ------------------------------
>
> Son of farmworkers, *Juan Felipe Herrera *lives in Fresno with his wife,
> poet Margarita Robles. During the last fifty years, he has dedicated his
> life to poetry, community, art, and teaching. Herrera’s many collections of
> poetry include *Every Day We Get More Illegal*; *Notes on the Assemblage*;
> *Senegal Taxi*; *Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems*, a
> recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics
> Circle Award; and *187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border:
> Undocuments 1971-2007*. He is also the author of *Crashboomlove: A Novel
> in Verse*, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for
> children include* SkateFate;* *Calling The Doves*, which won the Ezra
> Jack Keats Award; *Upside Down Boy*, which was adapted into a musical for
> young audiences in New York City; and *Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found
> Inside a Cereal Box*. His various awards include the National Book
> Critics Circle Award, NEA Poetry Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, *LA
> Times* Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, Latino Hall of Fame
> Award, Pushcart Prize, UCR/LARB Lifetime Achievement Award, Fred Cody
> Lifetime Achievement Award, UCLA Chancellor’s Medal, and the Ruth Lilly
> Lifetime Achievement Poetry Prize. In 2015, Herrera was appointed the 21st
> United States Poet Laureate, the first Mexican American to hold the
> position.
>
> A selection of Juan Felipe Herrera’s books can be purchased through the Poetry
> Society of America’s store on Bookshop
> <https://bookshop.org/lists/2023-frost-medalist-juan-felipe-herrera>, an
> online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent
> bookstores.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Allison Adelle Hedge Coke*
> *2022-2023 Mellon Dean’s Professor*
> *Center for Ideas & Society*
> *Distinguished Professor*
> *Creative Writing, School of Medicine,*
>
> *& the proposed Dept. of Society, Environment, & Health Equity (SEHE) *
> *2022-2023 Mellon Dean's Professor*
> <https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>
>
> *Center for Ideas and Society
> <https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/fellowships/>*
>
> *Weird Times, Be Kind*
> Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
> <https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh>
> Director, Writers Week 2021, 2022 <http://writersweek.ucr.edu>,
> Co-Director in 2023
> Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest
> author/editor of 18 books
> Most recent release, National Book Award Finalist,  *Look at This Blue
> <https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue>*
>
> She/her
> Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen
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