Sandra Cisneros Instagram – San Miguel: We invite you to listen to Richard Blanco read his crisp, sensuous and cultural identity poetry work 1 pm on Friday Feb. 16, 2024 and engage in conversation with me 5 pm on Saturday Feb. 17th at the Museo Histórico Casa Allende (Cuna de Allende 1, Centro, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato). Felisma Joven (FELISMA) FREE EVENT.
Los invitamos a escuchar la obra y poesÃa fresca, sensual y de identidad cultura de Richard Blanco * a las 13 hrs. este viernes 16 de Feb. 2024 y conversar conmigo el sábado 17 de Febrero a las 5 pm en el Museo Histórico Casa Allende (Cuna de Allende 1, San Miguel de Allende, Gto.). EVENTO GRATIS DE Felisma Joven (FELISMA).
Author Richard Blanco was selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry,including his most recent, Homeland of My Body. Richard Blanco has received numerous awards,including the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award, thePatterson Prize, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has received numerous honorary degrees. In April 2022, Blanco was appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County.
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