Richard Blanco was thrilled to join host Elisa New, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and fellow inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, as a featured guest on the season premiere of Poetry in America. One of his favorite TV shows, it brings poetry into living rooms across the...
As the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County, and led by his passion for connecting the community through poetry, Richard Blanco created Miami's Favorite Poems Project. This project invites people from all walks of life to share a favorite poem that has had...
Poet Richard Blanco returns to Boston Public Radio for an episode of the "Village Voice," to celebrate poet January Gill O’Neil’s latest collection Glitter Road, and to retroactively honor Black History Month, and Women’s History Month. O’Neil is a professor at Salem...
It was a tremendous honor to write (and recite) a poem about democracy and interdependence for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s State of the County Address. I'm grateful to have a mayor invested in the community, the arts, and the environment. Remember the...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to reflect on his most recent collection: Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems. He reads a selection of new works and shares thoughts on the inspiration that kindled them, as well as the creative...
In this latest episode of Village Voice, Poet Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to explore A-I-generated poetry. "I was going to choose Halloween poems, but I think this topic is even scarier." He said. Blanco asked Chat GBT to generate two...
Richard Blanco returns to Boston Public Radio and joins hosts Gerrard Bowen and Andrea Cabral for another segment of Village Voice. They speak a little about Richard's forthcoming collection, HOMELAND OF MY BODY, and how the concepts of home and love are ever-changing...
In this edition of the Village Voice, Richard Blanco recites poems to celebrate the 2016 National Park Service Centennial. For the occasion, The Academy of American Poets commissioned 50 poets from 50 states to write poems about their State Parks as a way of...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to celebrate Poetry Month with his favorite "Ars Poetica" poems. "Ars Poetica is in some way shape or form a poem about the art of poetry, it can take on many different meanings... The mystery of the process...
"I want to use this platform to invigorate the humanities because they are under attack in this country and it is essential that this be part of our education system. Especially in Florida!" A recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Richard Blanco spoke...