Hard not to love a place always called by possibility.
Nearby, Cuba is singing and somewhere here
Richard Blanco is writing his poems.
– Spencer Reece, “The Prodigal Son,” Poetry, May 2012
Richard Blanco has been named the 2013 inagurual poet. Read Spencer Reece’s paean to Blanco’s hometown of Miami, first published in the May 2012 issue of Poetry.