Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco is an American poet.
Life
changeHe was born in Madrid, Spain on February 15, 1968. His family had just left Cuba. Then the family went to New York. After that, they moved to Miami, Florida. He grew up there.
Blanco graduated from Florida International University in Civil Engineering in 1991. Then he got a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 1997.
After 1999, he traveled and lived in Guatemala and Brazil. He taught at Georgetown University, American University, and Central Connecticut State University.[1][2] Later, he returned to Miami and lived there.[3] Now he lives in Maine. [4]
In January 2013 he read his poem "One Today" at the second inauguration (swearing-in ceremony) of America's President Barack Obama.[5]
His work has appeared in some magazines. These include The Nation, Ploughshares,[6] Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly Review, New England Review, and Americas Review.
Awards
change- 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for City of a Hundred Fires
- Florida Artist Fellowship[7]
- 2006 PEN Open Book Award (formerly known as Beyond Margins Award) for Directions to the Beach of the Dead
- 1988 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference
- Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Works
change- "Last Lines; Mother Picking Produce; What Las Palmas Mean:; Last Night in Havana; Tia Olivia Serves Wallace Stevens a Cuban Egg". Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 5 (1). Winter 2004.
- "Somewhere to Paris", Poetry Foundation Archived 2011-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
- City of a Hundred Fires. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8229-5683-9.
- Directions to the Beach of the Dead. University of Arizona Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8165-2479-2.
- How to Love a Country. Beacon Press. 2019. ISBN 978-080702591-8
- Nowhere But Here. Hill-Stead Museum. 2004. ISBN 978-0-9744245-1-4.
Anthologies
change- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The Best American Poetry 2000. University Press of New England.
- David Lehman, ed. (April 2003). Great American Prose Poems. Scribner Book Company. ISBN 978-0-7432-4350-6.
- The Breadloaf Anthology of New American Poets. Bread Loaf Writers' Conference/Middlebury. March 1, 2000. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.
Related pages
changeReferences
change- ↑ Sienna M Potts: Siennese.com. "Poetry of Place, Home, and Identity". Richard Blanco. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
- ↑ "PEN American Center - Richard Blanco". Pen.org. 2006-10-16. Archived from the original on 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
- ↑ "HVWC - Richard Blanco and Terese Svoboda". Writerscenter.org. 2007-03-18. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-10-02.
- ↑ Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (8 January 2013). "Poet's Kinship With the President". The New York Times.
- ↑ "'One Today': Full Text of Richard Blanco Inaugural Poem". ABC News.
- ↑ "Author Details". Pshares.org. Retrieved 2012-10-02.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Richard Blanco: 2007 - Fellowship Recipients". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
Other websites
change- "Richard Blanco", TRES Review, Jack Anders Summer 2004
- Biography Archived 2013-01-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Readings by the poet Archived 2013-01-12 at the Wayback Machine