On the latest episode of Village Voice, Poet Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery to celebrate the work of Sandra Cisneros, and shares the "sexy poem" listed below. The House on Mango Street was Cisneros' first book, and one of Richard's early influences, inspiring...
In the latest episode of Village Voice, Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, and share his Cuban-American experiences through the lens of poetry. "That's my life, every month is National Heritage Month!" Blanco jokes,...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery for the latest installment of "Village Voice," to share a couple of poems to help us better understand our lives and times. Richard read 'an oldie but a goldie,' "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost, and a poem that characterizes the...
In the latest edition of “Village Voice,” Jim Braude and Margery Eagan celebrate Pride Month with poet Richard Blanco. Blanco kick-starts the show with a Father's Day throwback poem, "My Father, My Hands." It is an exploration of how poetry serves as a way to...
In this latest episode of "Village Voice" poet Richard Blanco explores poems on motherhood. "Since we did National Poetry Month, I figured we'd revisit Mother’s Day...My mother occupies a lot of my poetry, and my psyche." Richard shares the inspiration for writing...
In the latest edition of “Village Voice,” Richard Blanco wraps up National Poetry Month with poems by Marianne Moore and Ada Limón and shares insights on his new role as the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. Poetry Month was started in 1996 by the Academy...
To celebrate Valentine's Day, poet Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to share a few of his own poems (listed below), each one highlighting significant moments from his love life. He also shares thoughts on poets and love poems that have moved...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to share "winter weather poems" that reflect the stark beauty and nuance of the season in this latest edition of “Village Voice.” Enjoy the conversation and read along with the poems listed, which explore...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery for another edition of "Village Voice." This week’s theme is the Aubade poem, an ode or lament to the dawn, and “the love songs of departing lovers.” “A perennial theme stemmed in medieval times, it's said to have begun when the...
In the latest episode of “Village Voice,” Richard Blanco celebrates poetry by January Gill O'Neil. “…this is something that we find with January’s work, the poems start deceivingly simple, or very generous or accessible, but then really deepen in their content and...