Fresno's Juan Felipe Herrera Named U.S. Poet Laureate

A native son from California's great Central Valley will be the next U.S. Poet Laureate. That announcement came this week from the Library of Congress. He's Juan Felipe Herrera. If the name sounds familiar, it's because he was also California's Poet Laureate from 2012 until last year. Herrera taught poetry at Fresno State for many years. He recently retired as chair of the Chicano and Latin American Studies Department at University California, Riverside. Juan Felipe Herrera joins us from our bureau in Fresno where he lives.