Aug 3: We Too The People Series- Richard Blanco at the Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA

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Date(s) - August 3, 2025
3:00 pm

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This is a crucial time for American democracy. And so it is even more vital that poets and artists share their visions broadly and help shape the cultural conversation about the direction our nation is taking. And so the New England Poetry Club––one of the oldest literary associations in America––has created WE (too) THE PEOPLE, a series of poetry events for summer 2025 and 2026, bringing together some of the most acclaimed poets writing today.

We hope you will join us this Sunday, August 3^rd, for our third event: Richard Blanco––3pm EDT, in-person or live-streamed. The attached flyer will give you complete information and a link for the live stream–– or visit: https://nepoetryclub.org/we-too-the-people/

Richard Blanco

Selected 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. Born 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 reassesses traditional notions of home––not simply as a strictly geographical place that exists outside us but, rather, an intangible landscape within. Blanco 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. 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.

Angel Subero

Special 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. He has performed with numerous symphonic groups such as The Boston Symphony, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Iceland Symphony, Venezuela Symphony Orchestra among others. In the realm of Jazz and popular music, he has performed with such diverse talents as Claudio Roditi, Danilo Perez, Chris Botti, Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, and Rhianon Guidens.