Poetry and Prose with Richard Blanco

Cambridge Forum dedicates an evening to the poetry and prose of Latino writer, Richard Blanco.

Blanco is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. He was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama. His poems explore themes of Latino identity and place. In his latest memoir, The Prince of Los Cocuyos, Blanco discusses his childhood growing up in Miami as a child of Cuban-exile parents.

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