Richard Blanco
@poetrichardblanco.bsky.social
5th Presidential Inaugural Poet for President Barack Obama | Memoirist, Speaker, Professor
📚Recent: HOMELAND OF MY BODY (@beaconpress, 2023)
📚Recent: HOMELAND OF MY BODY (@beaconpress, 2023)
✨ Event Reminder ✨ This #Thursday, Nov 13 • 7 PM
I’ll be at Mechanics' Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry + conversation on nature, identity, and our shared human story. Free registration: lnkd.in/dpTq6Dms
I’ll be at Mechanics' Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry + conversation on nature, identity, and our shared human story. Free registration: lnkd.in/dpTq6Dms
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨ Event Reminder ✨ This #Thursday, Nov 13 • 7 PM
I’ll be at Mechanics' Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry + conversation on nature, identity, and our shared human story. Free registration: lnkd.in/dpTq6Dms
I’ll be at Mechanics' Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry + conversation on nature, identity, and our shared human story. Free registration: lnkd.in/dpTq6Dms
Next Friday (11/14), I have the honor of introducing the opening-night screening of *Come See Me in the Good Light,* a luminous documentary spotlighting poet Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley. Andrea’s voice remains a lighthouse for so many of us. Join us: thegemtheater.com/movies/come-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Next Friday (11/14), I have the honor of introducing the opening-night screening of *Come See Me in the Good Light,* a luminous documentary spotlighting poet Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley. Andrea’s voice remains a lighthouse for so many of us. Join us: thegemtheater.com/movies/come-...
Every new poem begins with the same questions: Where do I start, where do I end & what discoveries await? Join me Nov. 20 for Poetic Modes @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. We’ll explore epistolary & persona poems with examples, tips & prompts to spark new writing. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every new poem begins with the same questions: Where do I start, where do I end & what discoveries await? Join me Nov. 20 for Poetic Modes @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. We’ll explore epistolary & persona poems with examples, tips & prompts to spark new writing. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...
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Revisiting this marvelous image of common grass by our house — Red muhly, aka Undaunted Ruby — and how it is transformed by the light…
May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.
Peace 🙏
#nature #photography
May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.
Peace 🙏
#nature #photography
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Revisiting this marvelous image of common grass by our house — Red muhly, aka Undaunted Ruby — and how it is transformed by the light…
May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.
Peace 🙏
#nature #photography
May we continue to affirm light in the face of darkness & the principles we love in the face of hate.
Peace 🙏
#nature #photography
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November 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I just confirmed I’ll be one of the artists participating in this important cause/event, along with James Taylor and Hugh Jackman. More details soon!
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I just confirmed I’ll be one of the artists participating in this important cause/event, along with James Taylor and Hugh Jackman. More details soon!
“It’s not about monuments — it’s about movement.”
Proud to help bring the Obama Presidential Center to life — a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things. @obamafoundation.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
Proud to help bring the Obama Presidential Center to life — a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things. @obamafoundation.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“It’s not about monuments — it’s about movement.”
Proud to help bring the Obama Presidential Center to life — a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things. @obamafoundation.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
Proud to help bring the Obama Presidential Center to life — a place where ordinary people do extraordinary things. @obamafoundation.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/a...
Honored to speak at Conexión’s 2025 Culmination Ceremony—celebrating the power of mentorship and community. We rise by lifting one another. 🌟
conexion-all.org/event/2025-e...
conexion-all.org/event/2025-e...
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Honored to speak at Conexión’s 2025 Culmination Ceremony—celebrating the power of mentorship and community. We rise by lifting one another. 🌟
conexion-all.org/event/2025-e...
conexion-all.org/event/2025-e...
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I have two poems in this issue! allium.colum.edu/fall-2025-po...
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I have two poems in this issue! allium.colum.edu/fall-2025-po...
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Congrats to Mirta Ojito — Pulitzer-winning author, Latinx literati icon, and dear old friend — on the debut of Deeper than the Ocean. 🌊 Purchase: www.amazon.com/Deeper-than-...
Nov 6 – Books & Books: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Nov 22 – Miami Book Fair: www.miamibookfair.com/authors/page...
Nov 6 – Books & Books: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Nov 22 – Miami Book Fair: www.miamibookfair.com/authors/page...
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Congrats to Mirta Ojito — Pulitzer-winning author, Latinx literati icon, and dear old friend — on the debut of Deeper than the Ocean. 🌊 Purchase: www.amazon.com/Deeper-than-...
Nov 6 – Books & Books: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Nov 22 – Miami Book Fair: www.miamibookfair.com/authors/page...
Nov 6 – Books & Books: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
Nov 22 – Miami Book Fair: www.miamibookfair.com/authors/page...
What a joy to see poetry come full circle 💫 Last year I passed the Poet Laureate baton to Caridad Moro-Gronlier — now she’s leading Generation 305! Join us Nov 22 at #MiamiBookFair to celebrate intergenerational poetry + community 🌺
www.miamibookfair.com/event/genera...
@miamibookfair.bsky.social
www.miamibookfair.com/event/genera...
@miamibookfair.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
What a joy to see poetry come full circle 💫 Last year I passed the Poet Laureate baton to Caridad Moro-Gronlier — now she’s leading Generation 305! Join us Nov 22 at #MiamiBookFair to celebrate intergenerational poetry + community 🌺
www.miamibookfair.com/event/genera...
@miamibookfair.bsky.social
www.miamibookfair.com/event/genera...
@miamibookfair.bsky.social
Grateful for Danusha Laméris’s “Small Kindnesses” this #StanzaSunday. I, too, believe “mostly we don’t want to harm each other,” but seek small kindnesses to anchor our hearts in love. What gentle gestures might we offer today—perhaps without even knowing?
Full poem>> grateful.org/resource/sma...
Full poem>> grateful.org/resource/sma...
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Grateful for Danusha Laméris’s “Small Kindnesses” this #StanzaSunday. I, too, believe “mostly we don’t want to harm each other,” but seek small kindnesses to anchor our hearts in love. What gentle gestures might we offer today—perhaps without even knowing?
Full poem>> grateful.org/resource/sma...
Full poem>> grateful.org/resource/sma...
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If you’ll be in town for @miamibookfair.bsky.social, I hope you’ll come see me!
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you’ll be in town for @miamibookfair.bsky.social, I hope you’ll come see me!
Honored to appear in the Emmy-nominated Open Dialogues: The Queer Trilogy with Julie Marie Wade & so many heroes & allies. Congrats to Jeff Rusnak, Joy Satterlee & all who shared their stories—shining light in the dark. Premiere details soon! 🏳️🌈
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Honored to appear in the Emmy-nominated Open Dialogues: The Queer Trilogy with Julie Marie Wade & so many heroes & allies. Congrats to Jeff Rusnak, Joy Satterlee & all who shared their stories—shining light in the dark. Premiere details soon! 🏳️🌈
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October 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Excited to share: Homeland of My Body is 15% off at Beacon Press via Bookshop! Use code LOVEBOOKSELLERS. Every purchase supports indie booksellers.
Grateful for every reader who finds a bit of their own homeland here. 💛 bookshop.org/a/3319/97808...
@beaconpress.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
Grateful for every reader who finds a bit of their own homeland here. 💛 bookshop.org/a/3319/97808...
@beaconpress.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Excited to share: Homeland of My Body is 15% off at Beacon Press via Bookshop! Use code LOVEBOOKSELLERS. Every purchase supports indie booksellers.
Grateful for every reader who finds a bit of their own homeland here. 💛 bookshop.org/a/3319/97808...
@beaconpress.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
Grateful for every reader who finds a bit of their own homeland here. 💛 bookshop.org/a/3319/97808...
@beaconpress.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
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Honored to be joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) for #Palestine: #Poetry & #Justice —
an evening of reflection on humanity, conscience, and the law.
🗓️ October 30, 18:00 (CET)
🎙️ Conversation with poet Yahia Lababidi
darajapress.com/publication/... #booksky
an evening of reflection on humanity, conscience, and the law.
🗓️ October 30, 18:00 (CET)
🎙️ Conversation with poet Yahia Lababidi
darajapress.com/publication/... #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Honored to be joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) for #Palestine: #Poetry & #Justice —
an evening of reflection on humanity, conscience, and the law.
🗓️ October 30, 18:00 (CET)
🎙️ Conversation with poet Yahia Lababidi
darajapress.com/publication/... #booksky
an evening of reflection on humanity, conscience, and the law.
🗓️ October 30, 18:00 (CET)
🎙️ Conversation with poet Yahia Lababidi
darajapress.com/publication/... #booksky
On Nov. 13 at 7 pm, I’ll be at Mechanics Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry & conversation on nature, identity & our shared human story.
Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nea-big-re...
Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nea-big-re...
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
On Nov. 13 at 7 pm, I’ll be at Mechanics Hall with Monica Wood for the NEA Big Read — an evening of poetry & conversation on nature, identity & our shared human story.
Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nea-big-re...
Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nea-big-re...
Honored to write the poetic foreword for this anthology that speaks to the heartbreak of displacement, the resilience of memory & the beauty of belonging to more than one place. For anyone who has experienced/feels the same & educators wishing to share in classrooms www.routledge.com/Giving-Voice...
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Honored to write the poetic foreword for this anthology that speaks to the heartbreak of displacement, the resilience of memory & the beauty of belonging to more than one place. For anyone who has experienced/feels the same & educators wishing to share in classrooms www.routledge.com/Giving-Voice...
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This Wednesday, I am joining my dear friend (and genius) Hayan Charara at a reading to celebrate his new novel, *Hush Little Children* 10/15, 5:30pm - 7:00pm, at the @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social at the Historic Pearl. Come visit with us.
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This Wednesday, I am joining my dear friend (and genius) Hayan Charara at a reading to celebrate his new novel, *Hush Little Children* 10/15, 5:30pm - 7:00pm, at the @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social at the Historic Pearl. Come visit with us.
For this final #StanzaSunday of #HispanicHeritageMonth, a poem I wrote at the request of constitutional lawyer Larry Tribe—to honor the D.A.C.A. DREAMers.
Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...
Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...
October 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For this final #StanzaSunday of #HispanicHeritageMonth, a poem I wrote at the request of constitutional lawyer Larry Tribe—to honor the D.A.C.A. DREAMers.
Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...
Hear me read the poem, and explore #LatinoPoetry at libraryofamerica.bsky.social: www.latinopoetry.org/fea.../como-...
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Quick visit, but super happy to see him @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social Hold your people close. ❤️ Perfect cocktails and beautiful fried chicken livers at still our favorite restaurant Cured at Pearl.
October 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Quick visit, but super happy to see him @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social Hold your people close. ❤️ Perfect cocktails and beautiful fried chicken livers at still our favorite restaurant Cured at Pearl.
This #BannedBooksWeek, I’m standing with @penamerica.bsky.social and the American Library Association to protect the stories that shape us. Every book banned is a voice silenced, a perspective lost, a thread cut from our shared tapestry. Join the fight for our FREADOM pen.org/dont-censor-...
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This #BannedBooksWeek, I’m standing with @penamerica.bsky.social and the American Library Association to protect the stories that shape us. Every book banned is a voice silenced, a perspective lost, a thread cut from our shared tapestry. Join the fight for our FREADOM pen.org/dont-censor-...
In times that test us, poetry grounds us—gives voice to the unspeakable & helps us find meaning. 🌿 Free poems, prompts & workshops now live for #HispanicHeritageMonth.
💬 “So You’re Not a ‘Real’ Poet?” → Nov. 15. Free Forum for first 50 to sign up!
richard-blanco.com/workshops/
💬 “So You’re Not a ‘Real’ Poet?” → Nov. 15. Free Forum for first 50 to sign up!
richard-blanco.com/workshops/
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In times that test us, poetry grounds us—gives voice to the unspeakable & helps us find meaning. 🌿 Free poems, prompts & workshops now live for #HispanicHeritageMonth.
💬 “So You’re Not a ‘Real’ Poet?” → Nov. 15. Free Forum for first 50 to sign up!
richard-blanco.com/workshops/
💬 “So You’re Not a ‘Real’ Poet?” → Nov. 15. Free Forum for first 50 to sign up!
richard-blanco.com/workshops/