New EP Out NowPoetronica artist
The fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and Inaugural Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate.
Inaugural signed artist
An acclaimed poet whose work explores home, memory, identity, family, belonging, and the places where personal and collective histories meet.
About Richard
Selected by President Barack Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest person, the first Latino, the first immigrant, and the first openly gay person to serve in the role. In 2023, President Joe Biden awarded him the National Humanities Medal.
Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in a working-class family in Miami, Blanco has made the search for home and belonging central to his writing. His poetry collections include City of a Hundred Fires, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, Looking for The Gulf Motel, How to Love a Country, and Homeland of My Body: New & Selected Poems. He has also written the memoirs For All of Us, One Today and The Prince of Los Cocuyos.
His honors include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the PEN/Beyond Margins Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award. Blanco serves as the first Education Ambassador for the Academy of American Poets, is a Professor and Dean’s Fellow at Purdue University, and was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. His civic poems have marked moments including the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, marriage equality, and the Boston Marathon bombing memorial effort.
Out now
Blanco’s debut poetronica EP reimagines his acclaimed poem “Looking for the Gulf Motel” through three distinct sonic interpretations.
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Launch announcement
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Also appearing in The Palm Beach Post, Florida Today, Detroit Free Press, The Tennessean, and other publications nationwide.
Distributed through EIN Presswire.
Additional streaming platforms in progress.
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Lyric Music Video: “Nothing Here I Don’t Remember” (Folk Version)Press & media
Approved materials for coverage of Richard Blanco’s debut Poetronica Records release, Nothing Here I Don’t Remember.
Release summary
Presidential Inaugural Poet and National Humanities Medal recipient Richard Blanco is the inaugural signed artist of Poetronica Records. His three-track EP, Nothing Here I Don’t Remember, reimagines his acclaimed poem “Looking for the Gulf Motel” through folk, jazz, and Latin interpretations.
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