For his entire professional career, Larry Jaffe has been using his art to promote human rights. He was the poet-in-residence at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, a featured poet in Chrysler’s Spirit in the Words poetry program, co-founder of Poets for Peace (now Poets for Human Rights) and helped spearhead the United Nations Dialogue among Civilizations through Poetry project which incorporated hundreds of readings in hundreds of cities globally using the aesthetic power of poetry to bring understanding to the world. To reward this commitment was recently appointed Poet Laureate for Youth for Human Rights. He was the recent recipient of the Saint Hill Art Festival’s Lifetime of Creativity Award, the first time given to a poet.
