The Library of Congress is to announce on Wednesday that Juan Felipe Herrera, a son of migrant farmworkers whose writing fuses wide-ranging experimentalism with reflections on Mexican-American identity, will be the next poet laureate.
The appointment is the nation’s highest honor in poetry and also something of a direct promotion for Mr. Herrera, who was poet laureate of California from 2012 to 2014.
Source: Juan Felipe Herrera, From Farm Fields to Poet Laureate
Ever since David Hume noted that, while reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, “One is also plagued with his Notes, according to the present Method of printing the Book†and suggested that they “only to be printed at the Margin or the Bottom of the Page,†footnotes have been the hallmark of academia. For centuries, then, the footnote existed as a blunt instrument, wielded by pedants and populists alike, primarily for the transmission of information, but occasionally to antagonize opponents with arch rhetorical asides. But it would take a couple hundred years until writers again took up the footnote for other, more artful purposes, discovering in this tiny technique emotional and intellectual depth far beyond the realm of the merely experimental. Â
June 2015 – Father’s Day All Month Long
Father’s Day was first celebrated in June 1910 in the State of Washington, but was not Presidentially proclaimed until 1966. Come join us at the Todd Library and celebrate fathers all month long and try our guessing game of TV Dads as well as checking out our books on fathers.
