Richard Blanco

Donald Trump is breaking tradition again by foregoing an inaugural poet. Richard Blanco, the 2013 inaugural poet, reflects on this political moment. 

Cuban-American poet and author Richard Blanco was the first Latino, the first immigrant, and the first openly gay inaugural poet. He reflects on the death of Fidel Castro here.

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 possessed by a certain obsession. As such, their entire body of work, in one way or another, is generally an attempt to ...

Cuba is dominating the news, following President Obama's announcement that he will begin to normalize relations with the island nation.

For our series This Week's Must-Read, poet and Cuban-American writer Richard Blanco turns to literature for another perspective on this story.

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To Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, the restoration of U.S.-Cuba relations is like the reunion of two twins who've been separated. He reflects on what this moment means to him.

Richard Blanco, who read at President Obama’s second inauguration, was the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet. He talks about his new memoir about his childhood.

Poet Richard Blanco talks about delivering the inaugural poem at President Obama’s second inauguration in January 2013. In For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journal, he reveals the inspiration and challenges—including his experiences as a Latino immigrant and gay man—behind the creation of the inaugural poem, "One Today," as well as other poems commissioned for the occasion.