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DESCRIPTION:Come meet Richard Blanco\, the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poe
 t in U.S. history\, as he introduces a screening of the 2004 hit "The Note
 book" then participates in a Q&A with the audience about his relationship 
 to films. The screening will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday\, September 28.
 \n\n \n\nTHE NOTEBOOK | 2004 | DIRECTOR: Nick Cassavetes | WITH: Ryan Gosl
 ing\, Rachel McAdams\, Gena Rowlands\, James Garner\, Sam Shepard\, James 
 Marsden\, Joan Allen | RUNNING TIME: 2H 3M | RATED PG-13 for some sexualit
 y | PROJECTED IN 2K DCP\n\n \n\nAn elderly man reads to a woman with demen
 tia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the diffe
 rence in their respective social classes.\n\n \n\n \n\nSelected by Preside
 nt Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history\, Richar
 d Blanco was the youngest\, the first Latinx\, immigrant\, and gay person 
 to serve in that role.\n\n \n\nIn 2023\, Blanco was awarded the National H
 umanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Hum
 anities.\n\n \n\nBorn in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami
  in a working-class family\, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural i
 dentity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanc
 o’s many collections of poetry\, including his most recent\, "Homeland o
 f My Body\," which reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geog
 raphical\, tangible place that merely exist outside us\, but rather\, with
 in us.\n\n \n\nBlanco has received numerous awards\, including the Agnes S
 tarrett Poetry Prize\, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award\, the Patters
 on Prize\, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and
  has received numerous honorary degrees. Currently\, he serves as Educatio
 n Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets and is an Associate Profess
 or at Florida International University.\n\n \n\nIn April 2022\, Blanco was
  appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County.\n\n \n\nTick
 ets are $5 and available at link above. Students use code UMSTUDENT at che
 ckout for free admission (must show Cane card at the door).
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LOCATION:Bill Cosford Cinema\, Dooly Memorial 225
SUMMARY:WATCHING MOVIES WITH RICHARD BLANCO: "THE NOTEBOOK" (2004)
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.miami.edu/event/watching-movies-with-richard-b
 lanco-the-notebook-2004
CATEGORIES:Performance/Screening
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