Hey, Burrito Head! U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry. On sale March 13,2018 Hegre 530. 0166-$299(53059 00) Pemeareesnsts-Suanian an) sae at» Age Wangap- age ‘CANDLEWICK PRESS Can you walk and talk at the same time? ‘What about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all atthe same time? If not, youre in luck: exuber- ant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a reablife, boni- fied, Jabberwalking poet! Jabber Walkers write and speak for themselves and others rho matter where their feet may take them—to Jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move, And there's no stopping once youre a Jabber Walker, writing fast, fast, fast, seibble-poem-burbles-on-the-run Scribble what you see! Scribble what you heat! Ie all ouc there— vimonos!Juan Felipe Herfera, a vwenty-first United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, is the author of acclaimed works of prose and poctry for both children and adults. During his laureateship (2015-2017), Herrera traveled, widely, making approximately 130 official appearances, and became known for his energy, enthusiasm, and desite to include everyday citizens in the joyous work of creating literature. Continuing his long carcer as an. educator, Herrera encouraged writers ofall ages to participate in such projects as “La Casa de Colores” (“The House of Colors”), which invited Americans to contribute ¢o a collaborative epic poem, pairing that work with treasures fiom the Library of Congress's collections; the collaborative, illustrated children’s story The Technicolor Advensures of Catalina Neon; a Chicago Public School ‘There's no stopping once you are program, Wordstreet Champions and Brave Builders of @ Jabber Walker —a bonified poet the Dream: and a Fresno State University-based perfor om the tangly streets of the planet mance and language-experiment center, the Laureate where human beings breathe as Lab Visual Words Studio. best as they can and slap their ‘The son of migrant farmworkers, Herrera has credited hands in the air to greet the sun his mother and engaged teachers with encouraging where periods and dashes and him to write poctry. His work has received many hon- verbs and nouns come flying. ors, including a PEN Center USA Poetry Award, two Juan Fentre HERnern Américas Awards, wo Pura Belpré Author Award Honors, an Ezra Jack Keats New Weiter Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. Juan Felipe Herrera lives in CaliforniaYou have to JABBERwalk (that is, write & walk & write & walk nonstop on the Jabberwalking lanes — wherever you find them — of the city). A Jabberwalking poem, carved out by “Eyes of flame” loves to jump, fly, hip-hop, rock, roll, dive, scrunch, ~ BE FREE (wherever it lands, so it can loosen up your Mind-Brains <0 you can see things you have not seen before . . .a leaping poem is a poem that rockets you to a rare, raw, radical, puffy, blue-cheesy, and incandescent Rebel Planet. CANDLEWICK PRESS