Richard Blanco’s Gay Latino Poet Survival Kit
Richard Blanco’s Gay Latino Poet Survival Kit
*”The first immigrant and the first openly gay man to be the inaugural poet, the Cuban-born author talks about exile, his new memoir, and the forces that formed him.” By […]
Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Uses Platform To Push Gay, Immigration Causes
By Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino So many things have changed for Richard Blanco since he was named the 2013 presidential inauguration poet. Even poetry has changed for the Cuban-American. Blanco, […]
Latino Inauguration Poet Discusses Impact of Inaugural Reading
By Dorie Baker, Yale News Is the inaugural poem a new sub-genre of poetry? According to two practitioners of the form, the answer might be “yes.” Poet Richard Blanco and […]
Richard Blanco: Latino Makes History with Inaugural Poem
By Aiyana Baida, Voxxi Richard Blanco stood before 800,000 people at the nation’s capital to speak the message of ‘one’ America. At 44-years-old, Latino poet Richard Blanco made history at President […]
Blanco First Latino Poet to Recite at Inaugural
By Pete Burn, CNN Click on picture to read story. [Photo courtesy richard-blanco.com]
