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...
https://www.poetryinamerica.org/episode/looking-for-the-gulf-motel/ "Looking for The Gulf Motel" by Richard Blanco is in the spotlight in this episode of Poetry in America. Joined by host Elisa New, featured guest Gloria Estefan, and a chorus of Cuban American adults...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk9rwfj9jDU Arts & Letters Live, the literary series at the Dallas Museum of Art, commissioned poet Richard Blanco to write a new poem inspired primarily by works of art in the DMA's "My|gration" exhibition that was on view at 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...
Richard Blanco joins Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to share poems that reflect the beauty and nuance of the season in this latest edition of "Village Voice." Among the poems, thoughts were shared on climate change and the "dependability of the seasons."...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/101321-richard-blanco Richard Blanco continues the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in this latest edition of "Village Voice." From the living cultures of bodegas, to Spider-Man in Times Square, to coming of age in a...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/092721-richard-blanco?si=a75b769903de4ce6ac87fc35e230b4ae In this episode of "Village Voice," Boston Public Radio and Richard Blanco share poems to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month. From "Florida-grown mameyes" that are...