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The Chicana and Chicano Studies department at The University of New Mexico has organized a visit by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.

UNM Press author Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today. Herrera will be the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2015–2016. The nation’s first Latino poet to hold the position, Herrera...

When Faculty Senate met last month to vote to designate Chicana and Chicano Studies a department, more than 100 people congregated in the hallway waiting anxiously to hear the result of the vote. When it was approved, the crowd erupted in jubilation. No...