Richard Blanco
Spanish-born American poet · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 58
Richard Blanco is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Richard Blanco is read about 24 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 24 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. In 2022, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
