Here and There by Juan Felipe Herrera

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 14, 2015   Here and There   Juan Felipe Herrera

I sit and meditate—my dog licks her paws on the red-brown sofa so many things somehow it all is reduced to numbers letters figures without faces or names only jagged lines across the miles half-shadows going into shadow-shadow then destruction              the infinite light   here and there                cannot be overcome    it is the first drop of ink            Copyright © 2015 by Juan Felipe Herrera. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This is a poem from an unpublished collection, ‘Back to Where I Belong.’ Here I am interested in the new dominant discourse of surveillance and data where all other forms of identity are subordinate to it. Nevertheless, this top narrative tier is not exhaustive.” —Juan Felipe Herrera   Juan Felipe Herrera is the author of Senegal Taxi (University of Arizona Press, 2013). He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Herrera lives in Fresno, California.   Photo credit: Randy Vaughn-Dotta Most Recent Book by Herrera   Senegal Taxi University of Arizona Press, 2013) "The Purpose of Ritual" by Melissa Broder "What Are They Doing in the Next Room" by Bruce Smith "Poof!" by Mark Irwin Read This Poem   For National Poetry Month, we’ve teamed up with 826 National to produce Read This Poem, a celebration of poets in cities with 826 chapters. Read this week’s featured poems by poets from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038