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The New York Times - Travel With his blog, Richard Blanco hopes to connect Cubans on the island and in the United States.
117 months ago
The New York Times - Travel "Opening up Cuba has to mean way more than our own desires as Americans to be able to travel freely to the island." -- Richard Blanco
Cuba Through the Eyes of the Poet Richard Blanco
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With his new blog, the Cuban-American poet hopes to connect Cubans on the island and in the United States.
118 months ago
NBC News Blanco, who spoke at the historic U.S. flag-raising in Havana, is an award-winning poet who came to the U.S. with his Cuban exile parents from Spain.
Poet Richard Blanco: Cubans, Americans Have 'Shared Horizon'
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The Cuban-American poet says "We all belong to the sea between us."
118 months ago
The New York Times - Travel "Opening up Cuba has to mean way more than our own desires as Americans to be able to travel freely to the island." Richard Blanco answers questions about Cuba:
Cuba Through the Eyes of the Poet Richard Blanco
nytimes.com
With his new blog, the Cuban-American poet hopes to connect Cubans on the island and in the United States.
119 months ago
The New York Times - Travel With his new blog, the Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco hopes to connect Cubans on the island and in the United States:
119 months ago
HelloGiggles The amount of love and support Mykki Blanco received after he made his important announcement is wonderful.
Mykki Blanco’s announcement could help fight the HIV stigma
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Last Friday, immensely talented rapper, poet, and performance artist Michael Quattlebaum Jr. — aka Mykki Blanco — announced on Facebook that he has been HIV positive for the last five years. The post immediately received an outpouring of love and Read more ... support from his fans, and Blanco tacked on in the co…
120 months ago
Us Weekly Mykki Blanco is coming clean about a long-held secret: The rapper, poet, and performance artist revealed that he's been living with HIV for the past four years. Read more.
Mykki Blanco Reveals He's Been HIV Positive Since 2011
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Rapper-poet Mykki Blanco revealed on Facebook that he's been HIV positive since 2011 -- find out more
120 months ago
NBC News "For it is not simply a political and economic embargo that needs to be lifted, but also the weight of an emotional embargo that has kept Cubans collectively holding their breath for over 50 years."
Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco Launches U.S.-Cuba Writing Project
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Acclaimed poet Richard Blanco and writer and editor Ruth Behar have teamed up to create a writing project to respond to the new and evolving...
120 months ago
NPR "In my case, my life is my art, and my art is my life — one in the same — and my personal and artistic obsession comes down to a single word, one question: What is home?"
— Richard Blanco, who read his poem “One Today” for President Obama Read more ... s second inauguration.
An American Dream, A Cuban Soul: Poet Richard Blanco Finds 'Home'
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While immigration is a subject of some of the most intense political debates in this country, inaugural poet Richard Blanco says it also drives his art. He shares his journey of becoming an American.
124 months ago
NPR Long before he read his poem in front of a crowd of 800,000 at Obama's second inauguration, Blanco says he struggled to understand his place between Cuba and America.
"Before I even learned to say my first word," he writes, "I was subconsciously ask Read more ... ing those questions that would obsess me all my life and work: Where am I from? Where is home? Where do I belong?"
An American Dream, A Cuban Soul: Poet Richard Blanco Finds 'Home'
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While immigration is a subject of some of the most intense political debates in this country, inaugural poet Richard Blanco says it also drives his art. He shares his journey of becoming an American.
124 months ago