MIAMI — The Miami neighborhood where inaugural poet Richard Blanco grew up, in many ways, resembles Cuba his family left behind. Down the street, a man sells avocados from a small table. His favorite bakery, a few blocks north, serves guava pastries and cafe con leche. As a child and even as an adult, this […]
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Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair to read at Wilton library on Nov. 21
The Wilton Free Public Library will host a special reading by at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21. Refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase. The author of nine volumes of poems, he has held grants from the Guggenheim and Fulbright foundations, two Rockefeller fellowships, two grants in creative writing from the […]
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