Books By Richard Blanco - Author

Richard Blanco is the recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He has received awards for several of his books, including the poetry collections How To Love a County and Looking for The Gulf Motel, and memoirs For All of Us, One Today and The Prince of Los Cocuyos. He was selected by Barack Obama as the fifth presidential inaugural poet in US history, and his body of work and advocacy are characterized by his personal negotiation of cultural identity and universal themes of place and belonging. In 2022, he was named the inaugural poet laureate of Miami-Dade County. He was also named as the American Academy of Poets first-ever education ambassador. Connect with him online: richard-blanco.com, Twitter (rblancopoet), Facebook (RichardBlancoPoetry), and Instagram (poetrichardblanco).