The 41-year-old is wrapping up his four-year term as Colorado’s eighth poet laureate. LeFebre is the youngest of the state’s poet laureates and the first poet of color to hold the title.
Bobby LeFebre’s mind is a repository for the beginning of poems.
What does the role of a state poet laureate entail? “Making magic of the mundane,” LeFebre said, and scattering that magic far and wide across Colorado. The play won a state contest and qualified for a national competition in Washington, D.C., where LeFebre took his first plane ride to perform his work, he said.Inspired, LeFebre took acting classes and studied theater. A passion for hip-hop prompted the teen to write his own raps and rhymes, which became his entry point to the slam poetry world.
While LeFebre soaked up Chicano studies lessons, what he really relished was handing Delgado his poems after class and watching Delgado go at them with an editor’s vigor.Delgado supplied LeFebre with Latino literature and poetry while an African American studies course offered LeFebre a taste of writing from Black authors.
He’s also the playwright behind the lauded “Northside,” which debuted in 2019 at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center and ran for more than 20 sold-out shows. The play delved into Denver’sWhen Gov. Jared Polis tapped LeFebre out of a pool of nominees to be Colorado’s poet laureate in 2019, the governor mentioned LeFebre’s ability to “empower and connect communities through the wisdom of his words.
LeFebre’s successor, who hasn’t been announced yet, will begin their term in July. LeFebre said he wants to take the rest of the year to focus on his writing while searching for the right next project.
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