/tags/richard-blanco Richard Blanco en-US SAąúĽĘ´«Ä± Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2023-10-23/miami-poet-richard-blanco-belonging-homeland 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. Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2023-10-23/miami-poet-richard-blanco-belonging-homeland Tim Padgett /2022-05-09/skyrocketing-rents-stutter-awareness-richard-blanco-miami-dades-first-poet-laureate Rent continues to skyrocket. How long will that last? Also, it’s National Stuttering Awareness Week, and we’re talking with the Miami Speech Institute. Plus, Richard Blanco shares with us how South Florida has impacted his poetry. Mon, 09 May 2022 21:34:58 GMT /2022-05-09/skyrocketing-rents-stutter-awareness-richard-blanco-miami-dades-first-poet-laureate Amber Amortegui, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson /show/sundial/2020-04-27/heard-on-sundial-reopening-florida-the-states-unemployment-crisis-and-poems-for-isolation On this Monday, April 27, episode of Sundial:When Should Florida Reopen? Florida is experiencing a bit of an identity crisis. From Jacksonville to… Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:20:46 GMT /show/sundial/2020-04-27/heard-on-sundial-reopening-florida-the-states-unemployment-crisis-and-poems-for-isolation /show/sundial/2019-04-02/the-whole-search-never-really-ends-poet-richard-blanco-on-home-and-country 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… Wed, 03 Apr 2019 03:16:04 GMT /show/sundial/2019-04-02/the-whole-search-never-really-ends-poet-richard-blanco-on-home-and-country Alicia Zuckerman /news/2017-07-20/award-winning-writers-kick-off-literary-trip-to-cuba-with-meal-of-kraft-mac-cheese It wasn’t at a fancy Calle Ocho hangout or even at a Cuban restaurant that the ten travelers on Cuba One Foundation’s next voyage met. It was at the… Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:50:54 GMT /news/2017-07-20/award-winning-writers-kick-off-literary-trip-to-cuba-with-meal-of-kraft-mac-cheese /podcast/spark/2015-12-17/spark-richard-blancos-imagination 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… Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:51:49 GMT /podcast/spark/2015-12-17/spark-richard-blancos-imagination Alicia Zuckerman /culture/2015-11-19/poet-richard-blanco-talks-about-getting-creative 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… Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:29:53 GMT /culture/2015-11-19/poet-richard-blanco-talks-about-getting-creative Alicia Zuckerman /culture/2015-08-13/richard-blanco-to-read-new-poem-at-re-opening-of-u-s-embassy-in-cuba 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… Thu, 13 Aug 2015 21:15:51 GMT /culture/2015-08-13/richard-blanco-to-read-new-poem-at-re-opening-of-u-s-embassy-in-cuba Christine DiMattei /culture/2015-02-23/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… Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:52:46 GMT /culture/2015-02-23/an-american-dream-a-cuban-soul-poet-richard-blanco-finds-home Richard Blanco /culture/2014-11-18/richard-blancos-new-miami-memoir-explores-becoming-cuban-american From the opening pages of poet Richard Blanco’s refreshing memoir, “The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood,” it’s clear that you’re not wandering… Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:55:07 GMT /culture/2014-11-18/richard-blancos-new-miami-memoir-explores-becoming-cuban-american Tim Padgett