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Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco's memoir is The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood.

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A Cuban American poet accompanying Secretary of State John Kerry tells dissident artists in Havana to "hang in there."

A Cuban American poet sees a brighter future for dissident artists on the island
Richard Blanco, America's fifth inaugural poet.

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