Richard Blanco may be the least known of the poets ever accorded the honor of delivering an inaugural poem.
Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem: “One Today” (full text)
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Richard Blanco chosen as poet for Obama’s second inauguration
From the NYT: “Like Mr. Obama, who chronicled his multicultural upbringing in a best-selling autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,†Mr. Blanco has been on a quest for personal identity through the written word. He said his affinity for Mr. Obama springs from his own feeling of straddling different worlds; he is Latino and gay (and worked as a civil engineer while pursuing poetry). His poems are laden with longing for the sights and smells of the land his parents left behind.”