Top of page

Film, Video Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival 2020

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival 2020

Summary

  • Juan Felipe Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and the first Hispanic poet to serve in the position. His newest poetry collection, which is launching at this festival, is "Every Day We Get More Illegal" (City Lights). He reads from it here in the poem "Color Tense (a fracture of power and paradigm)."

Event Date

  • September 26, 2020

Running Time

  • 10 minutes 14 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

Rights & Access

While the Library of Congress created most of the videos in this collection, they include copyrighted materials that the Library has permission from rightsholders to present.  Rights assessment is your responsibility.  The written permission of the copyright owners in materials not in the public domain is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may also be content that is protected under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations.  Permissions may additionally be required from holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights). Whenever possible, we provide information that we have about copyright owners and related matters in the catalog records, finding aids and other texts that accompany collections. However, the information we have may not be accurate or complete.

More about Copyright and other Restrictions

For guidance about compiling full citations consult Citing Primary Sources.

Credit Line: Library of Congress

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival. 2020. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9406/.

APA citation style:

(2020) Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9406/.

MLA citation style:

Juan Felipe Herrera: National Book Festival. 2020. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-9406/>.