Richard Blanco

Writer Edwidge Danticat at around 10 years-old with her brother Bob and cousin Nick in Haiti. She joined her parents in the U.S. a couple of years later. She describes it as a tough landing.

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Becoming American: Immigrants Tweet Their Stories

4:51pm February 24, 2015

by Michel Martin

Entrepreneurs and engineers, performers and professors are among those who are sharing their stories about becoming American on Twitter.

Blanco says his recordatorio, a memento of his birth, shows that he "was a man of the world before I could even walk."

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An American Dream, A Cuban Soul: Poet Richard Blanco Finds 'Home'

5:05pm February 20, 2015

by Richard Blanco

While immigration is a subject of some of the most intense political debates in this country, inaugural poet Richard Blanco says it also drives his art. He shares his journey of becoming an American.