Jabberwalking
by Juan Felipe Herrera
on sale March 2018
Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you’re in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them — to Jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move. And there’s no stopping once you’re a Jabberwalker, writing fast, fast, fast, scribble-poem-burbles-on-the-run. Scribble what you see! Scribble what you hear! It’s all out there — vámonos!
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.
Jabberwalking
by Juan Felipe Herrera
on sale March 2018
Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you’re in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them — to Jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move. And there’s no stopping once you’re a Jabberwalker, writing fast, fast, fast, scribble-poem-burbles-on-the-run. Scribble what you see! Scribble what you hear! It’s all out there — vámonos!
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.
Jabberwalking
by Juan Felipe Herrera
on sale March 2018
Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabberwalk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you’re in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them — to Jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move. And there’s no stopping once you’re a Jabberwalker, writing fast, fast, fast, scribble-poem-burbles-on-the-run. Scribble what you see! Scribble what you hear! It’s all out there — vámonos!
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.
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Can you walk and talk at the same time?
‘What about Jabberwalk? Can you write
and draw and walk and journal all ac
she same time? If not, youre in luck:
‘exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan
Felipe Herrera, former Poet Laurcate of
the United States, is here to teach you
everything he knows about being a real-
life, bonified, Jabberwalking poet! Jabber
‘Walkers write and speak for chemselves
and others no matter where their feet may
take them—co Jabberwalk is to be a poet
‘on the move, And there's no stopping
once youre a Jabber Walker, writing fast,
fast, fast, seribble-poem-burbles-on-the-
run, Scribble what you see! Scribble what
you hear! Ies all out 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 Amerieans 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 poetry. 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
CaliforniaYou 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 so 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.
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