Bobby LeFebre

Bobby LeFebre (born 1982) is a poet, performer, and cultural worker. He is the current poet laureate for the state of Colorado. He is the state's youngest and first poet laureate of color.[1]

Bobby LeFebre
Slam Nuba team; Lucifury, Bianca Mikahn, Ayinde Russell, Bobby Lefebre, Original Woman, Panama Soweto
Born1982
Denver, Colorado
OccupationPoet

Biography

LeFebre is a native of Denver and attended North High School. He received his B.S. in psychology from Metropolitan State University in 2004 and M.A. in arts and culture from the University of Denver.[2]

Career

Bobby LeFebre is an Emmy-nominated, SAG-Eligible writer, performer, and cultural and social worker fusing a non-traditional multi-hyphenated professional identity to imagine new realities, empower communities, advance arts and culture, and serve as an agent of provocation, transformation, equity and social change. LeFebre is the co-founder of Sacred Voices, previously known as Cafe Cultura, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting youth literacy through poetry.[3]

Slam Nuba poetry slam team in 2008

He was a founding team member of Slam Nuba.[4] As an actor, LeFebre is represented by Radical Artists Agency, who manage Colorado's top talent for film, commercial, voice-over, industrials, and commercial print.[5]

LeFebre wrote the play Northside, which addresses the gentrification of Denver. The play premiered at Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center in June 2019 and sold out 30 shows, with over ten-thousand people attending. LeFebre stated "Northside" served as "an unapologetic celebration of cultural preservation and permanence and a eulogy to things lost." He called it "an urban-colloquial story of power and privilege, unflinching love, and the innate human need to belong somewhere." [6]

He is a board member of the Clyfford Still Museum and a member of the Latino Cultural Arts Center's advisory council.[2] He sits on the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs and is a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures fellow, and an Intercultural Leadership Institute fellow.[1]

Honors, decorations, awards and distinctions

He is a two-time Grand Slam Champion, a National Poetry Slam Finalist, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist, and a two-time TEDx speaker.[7]

In 2015, he was named one of Colorado's Top 100 Creatives by Westword magazine.[8]

On July 23, 2019, he was named Colorado's eighth poet laureate by Governor Jared Polis.[9]

See also

References/Notes and references
  1. "Colorado names its first poet laureate of color". The Denver Post. 2019-07-23. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  2. "Meet Colorado's New Poet Laureate". University of Denver. 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  3. "Poetry | Sacred Voices | United States". SacredVoices. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  4. "About | Slam Nuba". Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  5. "Bobby LeFebre". TEDxMileHigh. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  6. "Review – Northside Is As Rich A Play As the Community It's About". 303 Magazine. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  7. "Bio". Bobby LeFebre. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  8. Froyd, Susan (2015-05-05). "Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Bobby LeFebre". Westword. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  9. "Colorado Poet Laureate". coloradohumanities.org. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
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