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Episode 400: Richard Blanco on Fever Writing and Finding the Poem within the Poem

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Richard Blanco was the Presidential Inaugural poet at Pres. Obama's second inauguration, a winner of the National Humanities Award medal, and the author of Homeland of My Body (Beacon Press).

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