Summary

Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author ofIn Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems(Gunpowder Press, 2024) and three other books of poems,Scar and Flower,Gardening Secrets of the Dead, andThis Many Miles from Desire. He co-editedThe World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and SpiritandAfterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora w88 online sports betting.His w88 online sports betting appears widely in literary magazines, textbooks, and anthologies such asHere: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama;Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; andDear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others.

Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he teaches at Fresno City College and the MFA program at the w88 online sports betting, Reno at Lake Tahoe. He served as Fresno Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. He is the 10th California Poet Laureate and the first Asian American to serve in the role.

Education

• M.A., Composition and Rhetoric, California State University, Stanislaus