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April 23, 2025 - Lee Herrick, of Fresno, has been reappointed California’s Poet Laureate, where he has served since 2022.

Herrick has been an English Professor at Fresno City college since 1997 and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe since 2012.

He was the Poet Laureate of the City of Fresno from 2015 to 2017.

Herrick was an Adjunct English Professor at Modesto Junior College from 1995 to 1997.

He is the Founder of LitHop and an Advisory Board Member of Terrain.org, Sixteen Rivers Press, and Anacapa review, and a Member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

Herrick earned a Master of Arts degree in English, Composition and Rhetoric and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American Literature from California State University, Stanislaus.
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Governor Newsom and First Partner Siebel Newsom meet with California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick (file photo)
Source: Office of the Governor