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SUMMARY:Longfellow Summer Arts Festival with Richard Blanco
DESCRIPTION:The NEPC’s summer season at the Longfellow House continues. For the third event in our We (too) The People series\, we’re thrilled to present Richard Blanco to our audiences\, with special musical guest Angel Subero. \nSelected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history\, Richard Blanco was the youngest\, the first Latinx\, immigrant\, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023\, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBorn in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family\, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry\, including his most recent\, Homeland of My Body\, which reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geographical\, tangible place that merely exist outside us\, but rather\, within us. He has also authored the memoirs For All of Us\, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey and The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood. \nBlanco has received numerous awards\, including the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize\, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award\, the Patterson Prize\, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has received numerous honorary degrees.  Currently\, he serves as Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets and is an Associate Professor at Florida International University.  In April 2022\, Blanco was appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County. \nSpecial musical guest Angel Subero is a Venezuelan Trombonist\, Professor & Head of the Brass Area at the Boston Conservatory\, and on the Brass Faculty at Berklee College of Music. He is the Bass Trombonist of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. \nIf you’re not able to attend in person\, you can watch online! Register here. \nThe Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music\, poetry\, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. For directions\, parking\, and accessibility information\, see the Festival page. \nIn the event of inclement weather\, the reading will be held indoors.
URL:https://nepoetryclub.org/event/longfellow-summer-arts-festival-with-richard-blanco/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, 105 Brattle Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
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