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California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick is coming to Bell Center at Copper Mountain College this Friday at 6PM for a presentation, reading, and community-inclusive conversation mediated by Mojave Desert Laureate Ruth Nolan.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick is the author of four books and poems: In Praise of Late wonder: New and Selected Poems (Gunpowder Press, 2024), Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire. Herrick is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books, 2020) and Afterlives, a Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing. His poems appeared in Here: Poems from the Planet anthology with a foreword by the Dalai Lama and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy.
Herrick’s presentation Poetry and the Power of Place, Identity, and Belonging will be followed by a reading and conversation with Ruth Nolan, Mojave Desert Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing at College of the Desert. The event starts at 6PM and will run for an hour and a half. All ages, free entry and parking, open to all community members.
