Juan Felipe Herrera

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian.

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.