Strauch-Mosse Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Richard Blanco

When:
Monday, Apr 08, 2019 7:30p -
8:30p

Where:
Washburn Auditorium
10 Phillips Place
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://lesley.edu/events/strauch-mosse-visiting-artist-lecture-series-richard-blanco

Richard Blanco is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role.


Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the poetry collections Looking for the Gulf Motel, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and City of a Hundred Fires; the poetry chapbooks Matters of the Sea, One Today, and Boston Strong; a children’s book of his inaugural poem, “One Today,” illustrated by Dav Pilkey; and Boundaries, a collaboration with photographer Jacob Hessler. His latest book of poems, How to Love a Country (Beacon Press, 2019), both interrogates the American narrative, past and present, and celebrates the still unkept promise of its ideals. He has also authored the memoirs The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey.

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