Javier O. Huerta

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Javier O. Huerta is a

Mexican American and Chicano poet. His first book Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007) was awarded the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from the University of California at Irvine.[1]

Personal background

Huerta was born in

Bay Area, California
.

Professional background

Huerta also studies the laughter of poetry in the English

PhD program at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches the following courses, "Politics and Poetics of Refusal," "Documents and the Literature of the Undocumented," and "Laughter and Literature."[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Acentos Review Craig Santos PĂ©rez Review". Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Deep Oakland Person Javier O. Huerta". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  3. ^ "LatinoLA A&E: Q and A with Javier O. Huerta". Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  4. ^ "UC Berkeley English Profile Javier O. Huerta". Retrieved 7 January 2012.