The Boston Globe

Poet Richard Blanco tells us how to read a poetry collection

In his new collection, “Homeland of My Body,” the award-winning poet Richard Blanco considers the meaning of home, both physically and figuratively, in over 100 poems. He was awarded the National ...
LAist

Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Finally Felt Like I Was Home'

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Uinterview

Poet Richard Blanco Becomes First Hispanic and First Openly Gay Person To Address Inaugural

Poet Richard Blanco is the first Hispanic and first openly gay poet to deliver the inaugural poem, and at 44, he also happens to be the youngest. Blanco orated his original poem "One Today," that was ...
Yahoo

Maine poet and author Richard Blanco to receive National Humanities Medal Tuesday

Mar. 20—Maine poet and author Richard Blanco will receive a 2021 National Humanities Medal from President Biden on Tuesday during a ceremony at the White House. Blanco, who lives in Bethel, is one of ...
WAMC

Poet Richard Blanco First Visiting Artist At SPAC School Of The Arts

In collaboration with faculty, he will infuse poetry into the School’s multi-genre arts curriculum, which aims to provide further access to under-represented art forms, as well as to deepen the ...
syracuse.com

For the Record: Here is Richard Blanco's inaugural poem 'One Today'

WASHINGTON, DC – Poet Richard Blanco delivered an inaugural poem paying homage to the American experience. Blanco, at age 44 the youngest ever inaugural poet, recited a poem paints vivid scenes about ...
Sun Journal

Richard Blanco shares healing poem

BETHEL — Poet Richard Blanco, of Bethel wrote a new book of poems, “Homeland of My Body.” Because of the Lewiston shooting, he had to cancel a book launch event with Gov. Janet Mills that had been ...
Portland Press Herald

Poet Richard Blanco pulls from his own Miami-to-Maine story for first play

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WAMC

An American Dream, A Cuban Soul: Poet Richard Blanco Finds 'Home'

It's said that every writer spends his or her entire life working on a single poem or one story. Figuratively, of course, this means that writers are each possessed by a certain obsession. As such, ...
WLRN

Skyrocketing rents; stutter awareness; Richard Blanco, Miami-Dade’s first poet laureate

Richard Blanco was the first Latin and openly gay poet to read at a presidential inauguration when he read at President Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. Rent continues to skyrocket. How long will ...
Miami Herald

He was a U.S. inaugural poet. Now Richard Blanco is Miami-Dade’s first poet laureate

For the first time in its history, Miami-Dade County has a poet laureate. Richard Blanco, who grew up in Westchester as the son of Cuban exiles and has used the city as a source of inspiration for his ...