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Richard Blanco's new poetry explores new muses, especially new notions of home. It moves from rediscovering oneself in Miami to rediscovering oneself beyond Miami.

Rent continues to skyrocket. How long will that last? Also, it鈥檚 National Stuttering Awareness Week, and we鈥檙e talking with the Miami Speech Institute. Plus, Richard Blanco shares with us how South Florida has impacted his poetry.

On this Monday, April 27, episode of Sundial:When Should Florida Reopen? Florida is experiencing a bit of an identity crisis. From Jacksonville to鈥�

Richard Blanco is coming home. Wherever that is. What the poet has learned -- as the son of Cuban exiles growing up in Miami, then wandering, traveling鈥�

It wasn鈥檛 at a fancy Calle Ocho hangout or even at a Cuban restaurant that the ten travelers on Cuba One Foundation鈥檚 next voyage met. It was at the鈥�

In this edition of Spark, the poet Richard Blanco talks about how crazy he was about Legos. He talks about getting called a "sissy" by his grandmother and鈥�

Richard Blanco's poem for President Obama's second inauguration, "One Today," just came out as a children's book, with illustrations by Captain Underpants鈥�

When President Obama was sworn into office for his second term in January 2013, it was Miami-raised writer Richard Blanco who read the inaugural poem.He鈥�

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鈥�

From the opening pages of poet Richard Blanco鈥檚 refreshing memoir, 鈥淭he Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood,鈥� it鈥檚 clear that you鈥檙e not wandering鈥�

Miami-raised poet Richard Blanco had planned to take his partner to President Barack Obama鈥檚 second inauguration to sit on the platform as he read the鈥�

Cuban cuisine has chewed its way into South Florida's culture. Many an abuela has shared family recipes for ropa vieja and bistec empanizado, through鈥�