One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration - Softcover

Blanco, Richard

 
9780822962519: One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration

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One Today is a commemorative chapbook of Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem, presented January 21, 2013 during President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Blanco was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet by President Barack Obama. He is the author of three poetry collections: Directions to The Beach of the Dead,winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; City of a Hundred Fires, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Looking for The Gulf Motel. Exploring themes of Latino identity and place, his poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and Best American Prose Poems and have been featured on NPR. Blanco is a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, recipient of two Florida Artist Fellowships, and has taught at Georgetown and American universities. A builder of cities and poems, Blanco is also a professional civil engineer.

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