Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American

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, public speaker, author and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a

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, having read the poem "

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" for Barack Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. Blanco's books include ''How to Love a Country''; ''City of a Hundred Fires'', which received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press; ''Directions to The Beach of the Dead'', recipient of the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center; and ''Looking for The Gulf Motel'', recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also authored the memoirs ''For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey'' and '' The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood'', winner of the Lambda Literary Prize. In addition, Blanco has collaborated with

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renown cartoonist, author and illustrator

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on ''One Today'' illustrated children's book. He also partnered with photographer Jacob Hessler on the limited edition fine press poetry boo
''Boundaries''
with artist John Bailey on series of

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paintings titled
''Place of Mind''
and with Ramio Fernandez on the photography book
Cuba Then
'' He has been a professor, having taught at Georgetown University, American University, Central Connecticut State University, Wesleyan University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Colby College, Carlow University, and currently at Florida International University. His passion is to demystify poetry teaching to all ages including grade school to nursing homes, at diverse writers workshops (e.g.

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), correctional institutions, and several non-profit organizations including the Writer's Center. He serves as the first Education Ambassador for the

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Biography

Richard Blanco's mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born on February 15, 1968. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City. Blanco was raised and educated in Miami. Blanco’s parents encouraged him to study engineering, believing that it could provide him a more stable future. He conceded to their wishes and graduated from Florida International University in 1991 with a degree in civil engineering. He started his career in Miami while writing poetry on the side. His first book of poetry, ''City of 100 Fires'', explores these negotiations of cultural identity as a

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immigrant. 2013 Inauguration Richard Blanco

Between 1999 and 2001, Blanco traveled extensively through Spain, Italy, France, Guatemala, Brazil, Cuba, and New England. This wanderlust of travel exploring the meaning of home resulted in his second book of poems ''Directions to The Beach of the Dead''. In his third book of poetry, he explored his Cuban heritage in his early works and his role as a gay man in Cuban-American culture in ''Looking for the Gulf Motel'' (2012). He explained: "It's trying to understand how I fit between negotiating the world, between being mainstream gay and being Cuban gay." In the poem "Queer Theory, According to My Grandmother," he described how his grandmother warned him as a young boy: "For God's sake, never pee sitting down ... /I've seen you" and "Don't stare at The Six-Million-Dollar Man./I've seen you." and "Never dance alone in your room." According to ''

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'' magazine, he "views the more conservative, hard-line exile cohort of his parents' generation ... with a skeptical eye." John Dolan was critical of his style, calling his work "pure identity poetics, unsullied by one single stray thought or original turn of phrase." When asked in a May 7, 2012 interview with ''La Bloga'' whether he considered himself a Cuban writer or simply a writer, Blanco responded: "I am a writer who happens to be Cuban, but I reserve the right to write about anything I want, not just my cultural identity. Aesthetically and politically, I don't exclusively align myself with any one particular group—Latino, Cuban, gay, or 'white'—but I embrace them all. Good writing is good writing. I like what I like." On January 8, 2013, he was named the inaugural poet for

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's second inauguration, the fifth person to play that role. He was the first immigrant, first Latino, and first gay person to be the inaugural poet. He was also the youngest.

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said of Blanco: “He showed great courage, and it’s courage (that) is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. So I was very pleased with that". He was asked to compose three poems from which inauguration officials selected the one he would read. After reading "

," he said to his mother: "Well, Mom, I think we're finally American." The poem he presented, "

", was called "a humble, modest poem, one presented to a national audience as a gift of comradeship, and in the context of political, pop, and media culture, a quiet assertion that poetry deserves its place in our thoughts on this one day, and every day." Others called it "a rare break from the staid custom of ceremony that the rest of the afternoon brought" and assessed it as "Overall, the poem is successful, art meant to orient, to reconfirm collective identity in a time of recent tragedy. It's an optimistic, careful piece meant to encourage, a balm." Blanco planned to publish all three poems he composed for the event. He did so with the publication of ''For All of Us, One Today'' on November 19, 2013. The memoir chronicles his American Dream experiences creating the poems commissioned for the inaugural. It includes "

" along with the two other poems,
Mother Country
and "What We Know of Country," in English and Spanish. In May 2013, for victims and survivors of the

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Blanco wrote and performed a poem for the Boston Strong Benefit Concert at

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and

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Boston Strong
). A chapbook of the poem was also published and net proceeds of all sales benefiting the One Fund, which helps victims of the

. On November 22, 2013, Blanco participated in the official Tribute 50th ceremony for President John F. Kennedy. In 2016 Blanco gave National Archives Keynote lecture on the National Coversation on

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Human and Civil Rights. Blanco has been commissioned to write and perform numerous occasional poems for organizations and events such as the re-opening ceremony of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba ("Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar"),

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("Until We Could"), the Tech Awards of Silicon Valley ("Genius of Stars and Love"), the opening of Aspen Ideas Festival ("Cloud Anthem"), Orlando Pulse Nightclub Tragedy ("One Pulse - One Poem"), International Spa Association ISPA Conference and Expo ("Ignite the Self Who Loves You Most"),

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commencement ("Teach Us, Then"), the Fragrance Foundation Awards at the

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("To the Artists Invisible"), and commissioned by

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for

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("the U.S. of us"). He collaborated with author and artist Nikki Moustaki to create a video for his poem "Election Year" that was also published in the

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two days before the 2016 election of

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. Since 2017, Blanco has been contributor and host of the "Village Voice" radio program on WGBH (Boston). Blanco has collaborated with

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Havana Club on the launch of their heritage campaign "Don't Tell Us We're Not Cuban", Samuel Adams Brewery on
Love Conquers All, Pride
and Philadelphia Boys Choir on lyrics for Gershwin's re-imagined Cuban Overture. Other collaborations include musical compositions with

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-winning jazz/classical pianist and composer

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, prized composer Pablo Ortiz choral setting of "Leaving Limerick in the Rain" at

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for Terezin Music Foundation to honor the 70th Anniversary Liberation of

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, and several poems from his recent book ''How to Love a Country'' by minister of music and composer Tom Davis. He was honored that his poem "

" was projected on the big screen at the U2

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. Most recently Blanco's poem "Looking for the Gulf Motel" was featured in PBS Poetry in America with commentary by

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, Jorge Moreno,

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, Genesis Berry, Vladimir Cortez, Joseph Abreu and executive producer Lisa New. In 2020,

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commissioned a poem for the coronavirus pandemic called
Say This Isn't the End
" Following the 2021 capital insurrection, he published in New York Times Magazine the poe

inspired by German artist Anselm Kiefer's installation: ''Steigend steigend sinke nieder'' (rising, rising, falling down). During a reprieve from the pandemic, Blanco was honored as commencement speaker for Colby College on May 23, 2021 (poem "Your Self in You, Again"). Richard is currently on the faculty of

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, his alma mater for both Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1991) and Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1997). He was appointed as a founding member of President Obama Foundation Advisory Council and has lectured at the US National Archives Poetry of LGBTQ history for Human and Civil Rights. Since 2014 he has hosted visiting writers program and retreat at Gould Academy. Blanco is a member of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by

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. Recently Blanco was elected as Vice Chair of Board of Trustees at

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. He and his partner live in Bethel, Maine. Since 2013, Richard has frequented many events in various educational institutions. In these events he speaks of his various poetry, difficulties that he has overcome as well as offering advice for young poets and other creative writers. After the

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he shifted his approach to include mostly virtual events.

Poetry

Blanco's poetry has appeared in ''

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'', ''The'' ''New Yorker'''','' ''

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Indiana Review'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' VOX'', '' Americas Review and TriQuarterly Review.'' He has published articles and essays in The ''New York Times'', ''

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'', '' Huffington Post'', '' Indiana Review'' and several anthologies, including ''Norton Anthology of Latino Literature and'' ''Great American Prose Poems''. Blanco is part of the online Letras Latinas Oral History Project archives. Richard's first book of poetry, ''City of a Hundred Fires'', was published in 1998 to critical acclaim, winning the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection explored his cultural yearnings and contradictions as a Cuban-American coming of age in Miami and captured the details of his transformational first trip to Cuba, his figurative homeland. ''Directions to the Beach of the Dead'', published in 2005, explored the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, and won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. In 2012, Blanco's third book of poetry, ''Looking for The Gulf Motel'', was published; it related Blanco's complex navigation through his cultural, sexual, and artistic identities, and received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Poetry, and the Thom Gunn Award. Beacon Press published Blanco's fourth book of poetry, ''How to Love a Country'', in March 2019.

Awards

* 1997:

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* 2000: John Ciardi Fellowship from the

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* 2003: Residency Fellowship from the

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* 2006: PEN/Beyond Margins Award for ''Directions to the Beach of the Dead'' * 2007: Florida Artist Fellowship * 2013: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, ''Looking for the Gulf Motel'' * 2013: Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow * 2013: United States Fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet for

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") * 2013: President John F. Kennedy 50th Tribute - A Nation Remembers * 2013: Honorary Doctor of Letters from

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* 2013: Paterson Poetry Prize * 2014: Honorary Doctor of Letters from

* 2014: Honorary Doctor of Letters from

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* 2014: International Latino Awards Winner: Best Biography – Spanish or Bilingual, ''For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey'' * 2014: Honorary Degree from Maine College of Art * 2015: Opening Ceremony of US Embassy in Cuba ("Matters of the Sea, Cosas del mar") * 2015:

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for memoir ''The Prince of Los Cucuyos: A Miami Childhood''. * 2015: First Education Ambassador

. * 2015: Maine Literary Award for memoir ''The Prince of Los Cucuyos: A Miami Childhood''. * 2015: Commencement Speaker

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. Never Stop Learning. * 2016: Founding Member of

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Legacy Committee * 2016: Honorary Doctorate Degree

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* 2016: National Archives - National Conversation on

Human and Civil Rights * 2018:
Inter American Award
– Leadership for the Americas *2019: Advocate Magazine 104 Champions of Pride *2019: Commencement Speaker and Honorary Doctor of Letters from

("Teach U, Then" Poem) * 2019:

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Award Honoree * 2019: Gerda Haas Award for Excellence in Human Rights Education and Leadership * 2019:

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Ideas Festival Opening ("Cloud Anthem"). * 2020:

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Distinguished Lecture and Visiting Artist (Ketchum, Idaho) * 2021:

Commencement Speaker ("Your Self in You Again") * 2022:

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Poetry in America Episode ("Looking for the Gulf Motel") * 2022:

Elected as Vice Chair Board of Trustees

Bibliography

Books

* * * * ''Place of Mind''. Floating Wolf Quarterly Chapbooks. 2011. ASIN B005JSG3AO * * * * * *''En Busca Del Gulf Motel'' (Spanish). Valparaiso Ediciones. 2014. *''Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar''. US Embassy in Cuba Opening Ceremony. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0822964001 *''One Today'' Children's Book Illustrated by

, Little Brown Press: 2015 *''Counting Time Like People Count Stars: Poems by the Girls of Our Little Roses'', San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Tia Chucha. 2017. ISBN 9781882688555 *
Boundaries
', Two Ponds Press. 2017. Limited Edition Fine Press with Photographer Jacob Hessler *''Cuba Then, Revised and Expanded'', The Monacelli Press; Illustrated edition. 2018 ISBN 978-1580935104 *A Study Guide for Richard Blanco's "Translation for Mamá," Cengage Learning Gale. 2018 *''How to Love a Country''.

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. 2019. , *''Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing'' (Afterword by Anita Hill). Beacon Press. 2020. ISBN 978-0807071847 ;Selected Anthologies and Essays * poetry anthology * poetry anthology * poetry anthology * poetry anthology * poetry anthology *, essay anthology *Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, eds. (2010). ''Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else.'' University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820335698 *, poetry anthology *, poetry anthology *, essay anthology * Martín Espada, ed. (2019). ''What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump.'' Curbstone Books. ISBN 978-0810140776 *Thelma T. Reyna, ed. (2020). ''When the Virus Came Calling: COVID-19 Strikes America.'' Golden Foothills Press. ISBN 978-0996963275 *Anjanette Delgado, ed. (2021). ''Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.'' University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-1683402503 *Justin Jannise (2021). ''How to Be Better by Being Worse'' (New Poets of America Book 45) BOA Editions Ltd. ISBN 1950774341

References

External links

Interviews

CBS Sunday Morning Interview

Morning Joe Interview, October 2014

CNN Interview, August 2015

* ttp://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/red_white_blue_poets_on_politics/richard_blanco/ Poetry Society of America: Interview in the series "Red, White, & Blue: Poets on Politics"
BBC interview, January 21, 2013

Recorded readings

Reading at Claremont McKenna College on September 24, 2018

Richard Blanco
recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division's audio literary archive on May 17, 2013
The Night Heron Barks, fall issue 2020, Richard Blanco, Imaginary Exile
from How To Love A Country: Poems by Richard Blanco, Copyright © 2019 by Richard Blanco, with permission from Beacon Press, Boston Massachusetts, Audio recording used with special permission from the Author

Biography

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Bibliography

Books

See also

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