It’s well past midnight here in Penn’s Woods. Early Monday morning I had posted a preview of today’s reading by Richard Blanco along with a brief history of the inaugural poets who preceded him. So please don’t be afraid to jump back there for a little more history. Briefly, the first one, at JFK’s inauguration recited…
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A Sample of the Sort of Poem We May Hear this Morning–“America,” by Richard Blanco
I was working on an in-depth post, sort of a brief history of inaugural poets, leading up to Richard Blanco, who will read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration later this morning. But like Robert Frost I found myself still typing late into the night. Unlike Robert Frost, I didn’t finish the work in time. Not that it…
Richard Blanco to Read at Obama’s Second Inauguration
Poet Richard Blanco has been selected to read at President Obama’s inauguration on Monday, January 21st, one day after the official swearing in. From the interview on NPR: “My mother … was seven months pregnant with me when she left Cuba, and at that time, in 1968, since there were no diplomatic relations, everybody had…
