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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, Sept 29, 7-9pm Pacific time\n\nKPFA Radio 94.1 FM with City Lights 
 Books presents a webinar\n\nJuan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye\nEvery 
 Day We're More Illegal\nwith Sabrina Jacobs\n\nAfter two years on the road 
 as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his 
 travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, 
 and later, in quiet moments of reflection, here coalesce into an urgent yet 
 hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, 
 the wild injustice of our streets, the lethal border game that separates 
 and divides, and then a shift - a leap for peace and a view into the 
 possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the 
 collective conscience, a jolt filled with the many voices of everyday life 
 in America.\n  \nAnother of the most colorful, cherished and charismatic 
 voices in America is that of Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet, songwriter, and 
 novelist. She will read some of her own work and talk with her friend Juan 
 Felipe on the theme - Every Day We Get More Illegal. Born to a Palestinian 
 father and an American mother, Naomi composed her first poem when was six 
 years old. She has since published or contributed to over thirty books, 
 including poetry, young-adult fiction, anthologies, and novels. Among her 
 books are Habibi, 19 Varieties of Gazelle, Red Suitcase, Fuel, and A Maze 
 Me. \n\nJuan Felipe Herrera, in addition to being a poet, is a performer, 
 writer, cartoonist, teacher and activist.  His twenty-plus books include 
 The Upside Down Book, Thunderweavers, Notes on the Assemblage, 187 Reasons 
 Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007, and Half the World 
 in Light.  He is known for his often-bilingual and autobiographical poems 
 on immigration, Chicano identity, and life in California. Herrera was born 
 to migrant farmworkers in southern California and spent his early youth on 
 the move, living in tents and trailers in small farming towns throughout 
 the San Joaquin Valley.\n\nSuggested Donation $5-$20.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836602.php
SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye: Every Day We're More Illegal
LOCATION:Online webinar
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836602.php
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