Richard Blanco, national poet laureate and best-selling author, will engage in a poetry reading session of some of his social justice poetry, followed by an interview with Robert Watson about his life ...

President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with poet Richard Blanco during the ceremonial swearing-in West Front of the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, ...

Anyone who’s ever felt they were on the fringes of society knows what it’s like to be marginalised and shunned for not fitting in. Richard Blanco experienced that feeling while growing up, and ...

After Miami’s Richard Blanco took the podium at Barack Obama’s inauguration earlier this year, our pretty city definitely scored itself a little more cred when it comes to the written word. Luckily ...

Blanco, who read his poem "One Today" at Obama's second inauguration, is the first immigrant, Latino and openly gay poet chosen to read at an... Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Finally Felt Like I ...

MIAMI (AP) – The Miami neighborhood where inaugural poet Richard Blanco grew up, in many ways, resembles Cuba his family left behind. Down the street, a man sells avocados from a small table. His ...

Despite July’s persistent heat and humidity, poetry enthusiasts gathered under the shade of a few linden trees on the Longfellow House’s lawn in Cambridge twice. The two well-attended meetups were the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Poet Richard Blanco is launching a writing project to lift what he calls Cuba’s “emotional embargo.” Blanco and writer Ruth Behar, both Cuban-Americans, told The Associated Press ...