https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/the-village-voice-poems-to-honor-september-11 On latest episode of Village Voice, I joined Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio to share a couple poems of remembrance: "Photograph for September 11" by Wislawa Szymborska,...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/village-voice-a-lesson-in-poetry-translation On the latest episode of the Village Voice, I spoke about the joys and challenges of translating poetry into different languages. "[Translation] is an art. There are whole...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/the-village-voice-celebrating-the-work-of-dorianne-laux On the latest episode of the Village Voice, I spoke with Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio about poet extraordinaire, Dorianne Laux. Her poetry is assessable, yet...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/village-voice-poems-for-a-potential-turning-point-in-americas-relationship-with-race The question of race in all its complexity is something that we continue to not take a closer look at in America, it just keeps being...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/village-voice-celebrating-the-work-of-joy-harjo On the latest episode of the Village Voice, I spoke with Jim and Margery on Boston Public Radio about Joy Harjo, the current United States poet laureate, and shared some...
https://soundcloud.com/richard-blanco-poetry/the-village-voice-richard-blanco-on-the-poetry-of-the-home-cooked-meal On the latest episode of the Village Voice: I read a selection of poems on the essential human ritual that is the home-cooked meal. Home cooking is one...
To celebrate National Poetry Month, I called in to Boston Public Radio to read some of my favorite works in the genre of “Ars Poetica.” I explained these works as being "about the art of poetry in some way, shape or form.” You can follow along with the selected poems...
Richard Blanco, fifth inaugural poet, joined Boston Public Radio on March 26 to share some poems he felt might be a prescription to the array of complex feelings many are experiencing during the coronavirus pandemic. He noted a column in the Paris Review called...
Richard Blanco Poetry · Village Voice: Richard Blanco On The Persona Poem On this episode of the Village Voice, Richard Blanco joined Jim and Margery to share a crash course on the persona poem, also known as dramatic monologue, in which the poet speaks through a...
Richard Blanco Poetry · Village Voice: Poet Richard Blanco Gets Romantic Richard Blanco joined Boston Public to celebrate the month of Valentine’s Day by reading a handful of poems that celebrate love, and the experiences of falling in and out of it. “It’s a very big...