Awards & Winners

Richard Blanco

Date of Birth 15-February-1968
Place of Birth Madrid
(Spain, Madrid, Madrid metropolitan area, Iberian Peninsula)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Poet, Teacher, Civil engineer
Richard Blanco is an American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer. The fifth poet to read at an inauguration, he was the inaugural poet for Barack Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet.

Awards by Richard Blanco

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Blanco.

2006


Beyond Margins Award
Honored for : Directions to the Beach of the Dead