VenueCarlow University  

Date10/02/2015 

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCarlow University's English Department, Creative Writing, and Women and Gender Studies 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Madwomen Reading Series presents a reading by Richard Blanco

Friday, October 2, 2015
Rosemary Heyl Theatre, Antonian Hall, Carlow University
Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.)
Reception and book signing following the reading.
Free and open to the public.

Richard Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in US history—the youngest, first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in such a role. He was recently commissioned by the State Department to write a poem for the ceremonial re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. This poem, Matters of the Sea / Cosas del Mar, will be released as a bilingual chapbook by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Born in Madrid to Cuban-exiled parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work. He is the author of the memoirs The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood and For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey; the poetry chapbooks One Today and Boston Strong; and the poetry collections Looking for the Gulf Motel, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, and City of a Hundred Fires. Currently, he is collaborating with renowned illustrator Dav Pilkey on a children’s book of his poem One Today.

Blanco’s many awards include the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Thom Gunn Award. A builder of cities as well as poems, Blanco holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.F.A in Creative Writing.

SPONSORED BY CARLOW UNIVERSITY’S ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, CREATIVE WRITING, AND WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES.

For more information, please contact Sarah Williams-Devereux at sewilliams412@carlow.edu
or Jan Beatty at jpbeatty@carlow.edu. www.carlow.edu


'Blanco’s contributions to the fields of poetry and the arts have already paved the path forward for future generations of writers.' —President Barack Obama

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