Full title: Inauguration Poet In St. Louis To Talk About Growing Up, Home and Poetry
Poet Richard Blanco is best known for “One Today,” the poem he wrote and read at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. Blanco was the first Latino, first immigrant and first openly gay writer to be commissioned as an inaugural poet.
“They never mention first engineer,” Blanco told “St. Louis on the Air” host Don Marsh last week. For now, though, Blanco says he doesn’t mind the labels. “For the moment, I think they’re important things to be said,” he said. “And not said about me, but as I’ve learned these past 18 months, to be said because there are a lot of people who need to hear that, so to speak.”
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