Gamechanger Richard Blanco - First immigrant, Latino, & openly gay U.S. Inaugural Presidential Poet

Gamechangers LIVE with Sergio Tigera

Jun 9 2022 • 34 mins

Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author 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. 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, and he is also the first ever poet Laurette of Miami Dade County.


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