Richard blanco accomplishments

Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an Americanpoet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama'ssecond inauguration.

He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet.^[1] In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Life

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He was born in Madrid, Spain on February 15, 1968. His family had just left Cuba.

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Then the family went to New York. After that, they moved to Miami, Florida. He grew up there.

Blanco graduated from Florida International University in Civil Engineering in 1991.

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Then he got a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 1997.

After 1999, he traveled and lived in Guatemala and Brazil. He taught at G