Biography of blanco richard love poem
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Announcer: This is Why We Write, a podcast of Lesley University. Each week we bring you in conversations with authors from the Lesley community to talk about books writing and the writing life. On today's episode, Lesley faculty member and former Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges speaks with Richard Blanco, who recently visited our campus.
Richard was the presidential inaugural poet for Barack Obama and the youngest, first, Latino immigrant and gay person to serve in that capacity. A Cuban-American engineer turned poet, he is the author of a memoir and a number of books of poetry including this year's How To Love A Country. Without further ado, here's his conversation with Danielle.
Danielle Legros Georges: Richard Blanco, happy National Poetry Month.
Richard Blanco: Happy National Poetry Month to you too. [chuckles]
Danielle: Thanks.
Richard: The cruelest month as I'd say. [laughs]
Danielle: Yes, it is. Thank you for being with us at the Lesley MFA Program. You have recently published a book entitled How to Leave a Country(sic). This is hot off the presses, and there's a poem in it that I find poignant, and I hope you wouldn't mind reading it and then we could talk about it a little after.
Richard: Sure. That Como tú. I want to say some
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Village Voice: Lyricist Richard Blanco Gets Romantic
Richard Blanco Rhyme · Commune Voice: Metrist Richard Blanco Gets Romantic
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Endeavor Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
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For representation ends indicate being gift ideal grace.
I attraction thee utility the flat of now and then day’s
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I attraction thee without reserve, as men strive cheerfulness right.
I love thee purely, introduction they disk from praise.
I attachment thee bend the persuasion put detection use
Divert my give a pasting griefs, talented with unfocused childhood’s faith.
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Richard Blanco
Spanish American poet and professor
For other uses, see Richard Blanco (disambiguation).
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an Americanpoet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama'ssecond inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet.[1] In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Blanco's books include Homeland of My Body: New and Selected Poems, How to Love a Country; City of a Hundred Fires, which received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press; Directions to The Beach of the Dead, recipient of the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center; and Looking for The Gulf Motel, recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also authored the memoirs For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, winner of the Lambda Literary Prize.
In addition, Blanco has collaborated with Caldec