Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of four books, most recently, In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems. He co-edited The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit and Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing. His writing appears in Here: Poems for the Planet, with an introduction by the Dalai Lama; Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice, with an introduction by Common; and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Born in Daejeon, Korea and adopted to the United States at ten months, he lives and teaches in Fresno, California.

Other poems on the web by Lee Herrick:
Five poems
Four poems
Six poems
"Sun"

Lee Herrick's Website.

About In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems:

"Rare and gifted. A timely arrival. Life-deep brilliance."
—Juan Felipe Herrera

"A true storyteller, a master of focus and fearlessness."
—Patricia Smith

"Whitman revised. . .Herrick's work is a gift for us all."
—Brian Turner

"This poet is an unapologetic patriot in the vast country of love."
—Sun Yung Shin