Poetry Reading: Richard Blanco
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Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters
Free
The 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.
Sign-up Information
- Ages: 4 to Adults.
No application or registration needed.
Cost
This Event is free!
Location
- In-person only.
105 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Dates and Times
Sun, August 3 2025 3PM – 4PM
Additional information
Named 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. 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 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.
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Last updated July 27, 2025.
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