Watch the video of Governor Newsom and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom surprising Lee in his classroom at Fresno City College. (November 2022).

Press release from the office of Governor Gavin Newsom. “Governor Newsom Appoints California Poet Laureate” (November 18, 2022)

Video. Lee in conversation with LA Times Editor Steve Padilla (December 2023).

Print article. "From high school to prisons: Why California's Poet Laureate is Always on the Road," by Jim Ruland. (December 2023).

Audio. Lee speaks with Matt Hoisch, founder of The Laureate Project, featuring interviews with state poets laureate.

Video. Lee speaks with Los Angeles Poet Laureate for the PoetryLA interview series.

Video. Lee speaks with Malcolm Clemens Young at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco (September 2023).

Interview (video), September 2023.

News article. “From high schools to prison: Why California’s Poet Laureate is Always on the Road.” (Nov. 16, 2023)

Article. “Lee Herrick’s California,” by Mike Sonksen. (September 2023).

Lee talks with Adapted podcast host Kaomi Lee about adoption and poetry.
(September 2023).

Video. Lee visits with Conversations with Poets host Michael Klam in the Rare Books Room at the San Diego Public Library (May 2023).

Video. Newport Beach Public Television. Lee reads at the Newport Beach Public Library (May 2023).

Print article with video. “What California’s Poet Laureate - A Stan State alum - Told Turlock Students.” (April 27, 2023)

Public Radio. “California’s Poet Laureate Sees Writing as “Place of Freedom.” (April 6, 2023)

TV. CMAC. Lee appears on local television program “Everything Sparkle.”

Public Radio. “California’s First AAPI Poet Laureate Sees Beauty in State.” (April 3, 2023)

Video. Lee reads at the MVC Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula (February 2023).

Podcast. CAAPLE (California Association of Asian & Pacific Leaders in Education). “Poetry, Adoption, and California with Lee Herrick.” (April 1, 2023)

Podcast. “Lee Herrick, with Special Guest Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez.” (March 20, 2023)

Podcast of the Los Angeles County Office of Education. “California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick.” (March 13, 2023)

Video. “California Names First Asian American Poet Laureate.” (March 2, 2023)

Public Radio. Podcast. “Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate.” (February 9, 2023).

Podcast. “Lee Herrick and the Power of Words.” (January 19, 2023)

Print article and interview. “There’s Music in Everyone”: California’s First Asian American Poet Laureate Advocates for the Arts (January 19, 2023)

Public Radio. “California’s New Poet Laureate Wants to Bridge Social Justice and Poetry.” (January 6, 2023)

News article and interview. “California’s new poet laureate wants to bridge social justice and poetry” (December 21, 2022)

News article. “California’s New Poet Laureate, who is from Fresno, sees ‘poetry in everyone’” (December 5, 2022)

Print interview. “What does a poet laureate get paid for? We asked Lee Herrick - California’s Next One” (November 30, 2022)

Print Interview. “Introducing California’s New Poet Laureate: Fresno’s Lee Herrick Gets a Surprise Visit With the News from Gov. Newsom Himself” (November 22, 2022)

News article. “Lee Herrick, a writer-professor from Fresno, is chosen as California poet laureate” (November 18, 2022)

Press release. “Governor Newsom Appoints Lee Herrick as California Poet Laureate” (November 18, 2022)

Podcast interview: “Lee Herrick wants us all to be ok: On finding the fire, faith, and forgiveness.” (June 9, 2022)

Podcast interview: Lee Herrick interviewed by host Haley Radke. (April 22, 2022)

Podcast interview: “How Music Leaves The Body.” In this episode, Clifford Brooks and Michael Amidei interview poet and professor Lee Herrick. (June 24, 2021)

Online: Interview with Lee Herrick and Leah Silvieus, written by Bradley Samore. (May 12, 2021)

Video: The Academy of American Poets hosted the 18th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind gala, presented virtually for the first time, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month. Honored reader Samin Nosrat, chef and author/TV host of Netflix’s Salt Fat Heat Acid, chose to read Lee Herrick’s poem, “My California.” (April 29, 2021)

Print: Cover story and featured interview. written by Rebecca Evans. (November 2020)

Interview: 10 Years of LR | Process Profile: Lee Herrick on “The House Is Quiet, Except”

Issue 6 contributor Lee Herrick reflects back on his poem ‘The House Is Quiet, Except.’” (July 30, 2020)

Article: “Fresno Poet Lee Herrick Writes Poems That ‘Call You Out’ In New Book, Scar And Flower” by Laura Tsutsui. (January 8, 2019)

Online: Interview with Lee Herrick, written by Rebecca Evans. (December 27, 2018)

Podcast: hosted by Neil Aiken, produced by Jenna Yokoyama. (2017)

Interview: “25 Things You Didn’t Know About Fresno’s Outgoing Poet Laureate Lee Herrick” by Doug Hoagland. (June 2017)

Video: “Fresno Poet Laureate Lee Herrick: Reflections and a Reading” by Silvia Flores. (February 8, 2017)

Video: Interview with Lee Herrick, City of Fresno Poet Laureate, by student reporter at Fresno City College campus newspaper The Rampage. (September 8, 2015)

Article: “Fresno Teacher Belongs to a Long Line of Central Valley Poets” by Jefferson Beavers. (August 22, 2014)

Article: “You Call That Art?” curated by Zocalo Public Square staff. (February 25, 2014)

Podcast: Interview with Lee Herrick, hosted by Daniel Chacon and Benjamin Alire Saenz at KTEP. (January 19, 2014)

Review: Gardening Secrets of the Dead reviewed by Suzanne Roberts. (November 24, 2012)

Interview: “A Conversation with Lee Herrick” by Lantern Review staff. (November 7, 2012)

Interview: “At Table with Lee Herrick: gratitude, adoption, bibimbap, and Jimi Hendrix” by Kim Sunee. (October 30, 2012)

Interview with Kartika Review staff. (August 7, 2012)

Article: Lee Herrick’s writing playlist while writing Gardening Secrets of the Dead (2012)

Interview with Lee Herrick by curator Eileen R. Tabios. (March 21, 2011)

Podcast: Interview with Lee Herrick by Rachelle Cruz. (November 2010)

Interview: “First Book Poets In Conversation: Ivy Alvarez & Lee Herrick.” (Summer 2007)