Thank you. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco said he was made in cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the u. S. His family fled cuba after the revolution and eventually settled in miami. As a child, he possessed based on creative but also excelled in math and the sciences. In fact, before obtaining a masters in fine art from Florida International university he worked as a consulting engineer. Mr. Blanco released his first book of poetry in 1999 which won agnes lynch portrait prize. In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the foots
In 2005 he published directions to the beach of the day which received the beyond margins award. His 2012 his 2012 collection of coins titled looking for the gold was how touches on his life as a saturday man between domestic and integrated culture. When he was chose as the fifth poet of the United States for barack obama that cannot duration mr. Blanche go follows in the footsteps of the great alexandra, my angelo and robert frost. He tells the story of that experience for all of us once a day and a nonzero poster name. His latest book the memoir explores his comingofage within two imaginary worlds. His parents nostalgic 1950 cuba and has imagined america, the country he saw on reruns of the brady bunch and leave it to beaver. Richard blancos personal narrative is an account of how he discovered his authentic self and ultimately a deeper understanding of what it means to be an american. Ross chad is a National Book Award Finalist for nonfiction. Her cartoons have been published in man
Its a very useful program. I would like to see it extended to childless dads or dads who are not living with their children so they can have an incentive to work and employers can have an incentive to hire them. We can have more Child Support paid and more families working together. There are some things we can do to try to help this population the middle but its really hard. Its difficult because the factory jobs we saw in baltimore are not coming back. Host labors love lost is the name of the book the rise and fall of the workingclass family in america. Johns hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin is the author and here is the cover. Charles blow Richard Blanco discuss their memoirs at the miami book fair. This is about an hour, 15. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce the presenters for this program. Richard blanco says he was making cuba, assembled in spain and imported to the usa. His family fled cuba after t
Streets of manchester, on the streets of london than on the streets of amsterdam, brussels, on the streets of paris. Of course, in paris on that night back in november 2015, anderson, that was a coordinated gun and bomb attack on a stadium, on the concert hall and on the cafes. We have only in manchester at this time seen what appears to be a single suicide bomber carry out an attack. If you are just joining us, the latest developments from the United Kingdom where police are treating a suspected terrorist bombing, a possible suicide detonation, deadly explosion just outside an Ariana Grande concert. It happened outside the Manchester Arena shortly after the concert ended. 19 people have been killed, approximately 50 people have been hurt. Authorities are treating it as a possible terrorist attack until they learn otherwise. We are expecting to hear from them shortly. It was supposed to be at the top of the hour. Its two minutes past that. I want to go to phil black who has been monito
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