Listen in to 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, interviewed by then Notre Dame MFA candidate in poetry and graduate student Luis Lopez-Maldonado. As a poet, educator, and writer, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recognizes Herrera for “uplifting Chicanx culture and amplifying shared experiences of solidarity and empowerment.” In this oral history conversation Herrera and Lopez-Maldonado uncover the insight to be gained from playing with language, the value of nurturing one’s art accompanied by close friends, and why both individuals and communities should answer the call to write.

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