President Obama

Poet Richard Blanco Reads Tonight In Miami

Alicia Zuckerman — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:30:36 +0000

When Richard Blanco got the call that he'd been chosen to write a poem for President Obama's second inauguration, at first he thought it was a prank. He still has no idea how he ended up on the President's radar.

The State Of The Union Of Climate Change: How Will Obama Address Global Warming?

Tricia Woolfenden — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:00:00 +0000

On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term. Among the many issues that impact South Floridians -- jobs, immigration reform, Medicare -- climate change is one of the hot-button topics expected to make the agenda.

Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet, Lived 'The Quintessential American Experience'

Steve Watkins — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:06:00 +0000

Richard Blanco is home now, back in Miami after a six-year journey that launched the award-winning poet and FIU double-graduate into what was supposed to be the “real America.”

“The great prodigal return,” he calls it, the irony evident in his voice – not only about the places he’s been, but about the place he’s come back to. The journey has shaped much of Blanco’s recent poetry, and his evolving sense of identity as a writer, as the son of Cuban immigrants and as an American.