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Articles by Richard Blanco
Property Investor News
In the first of a two-part article, I have spoken to various landlords around the UK and found out their thoughts on the current market. The long summer is over and the tenancy provisions of the Renters Right Act are fully in force. Landlords move into a new era, the final date for enforcing a section 21 notice was 31 July and the final cases are winding their way through the courts.
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Property Investor News
Should I stay or should I go is a live question amongst many landlords at the moment.
Property Investor News
Frustration and consternation at the levels of leakage and kite flying before the Autumn budget are well documented. So finally on 26 November, there were no changes to capital gains and inheritance tax. No full-scale reform of SDLT or council tax and no national insurance contributions to be levied on landlords. But, in line with her view that landlords are not working people, the chancellor did increase taxes on property income and savings by 2% to 22%, 42% and 47%.
Property Investor News
The budget is scheduled for 29 November 2025 and this year there has been a lot of kite flying about possible content, particularly for property owners. The chancellor has to raise around £40bn and sees the property sector as a good mining opportunity. Let’s take a look at what we know about each proposal and the likely implications. The biggest headline grabber has been the proposal to levy National Insurance on rental income.
The Bridge
Skip to main content Find and share the perfect poems. Once there was a bridge I couldn’t cross. Cusp of summer. Sound of insects carried with me, from Melville’s fields in my-heart-on-the-bridge, their zzzz. Year’s end, now. A theory of edges. A vow to complete certain tasks—they will not improve me, but dissipate, burn off like vapor. I’ve already been too good. I thought keys would fly out of my pocket and then I would have to fly after, to enter the terrifying room where things blow away to.
Property Investor News
It has been rambling its way through Parliament like the Caribou wandering north to south across Canada in its annual migratory search for warmer climes. Finally, it looks like we might have the shape of the finished article. But with just a few months left until a general election, it could be a race to the finishing line. Housing charities bemoaned the latest set of government amendments as placating a cabal of Conservatve landlord MPs and turning the bill into a landlords’ charter.
Dressing the Bear
Susan L. Leary. Trio House, $18 trade paper (94p) ISBN 978-1-949487-23-7 In this moving debut, Leary meditates on the spaces the dead leave behind, offering an elegiac exploration of sibling bonds through the story of a brother lost too young to an overdose in jail.
The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and gay Presidential Inaugural Poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.
HOMELAND OF MY BODY
Richard Blanco, a Cuban American poet, narrates an intimate collection of poems that reflect on humanity, home, family, identity, and healing. His voice is deep and intense. He enunciates words in English and Spanish with clarity and steadiness. Many endearing moments are conveyed in his tone as he depicts different characters in his life--sometimes his mother, grandmother, and father.
Property Investor News
Rumours that the Renters Reform Bill might not survive the parliamentary session due to end on 7 November were finally ended when the Bill received its second reading on 23 October. At the same time the Government released its response to the Housing Select Committee’s report on the Bill published nearly 10 months earlier in January 2023.
Once upon a Time: Surfside, Miami
Once and once again I am as I remember myself. Thirty years later, I can still savor the sway of these palms fanning this same wind into syllables whispering good morning in my eyes, saving these todays when I can no longer hear how to live out this passion for breaking myself into poems like this, like these waves that once upon a time are again my loyal loves still kissing my feet as I stroll this shore and glance back at my footprints again washed away.
Property Investor News
Seventy-three per cent of all landlord sales in 2022 were landlords retiring from the sector, according to research from Hamptons. Should I be joining them, I ponder? They are likely to be baby boomers who benefitted from the birth of buy to let mortgages in the late 1990s: I joined a little later in 2004. I vividly remember the sunny uplands of landlording when the Blair government had a light touch approach to regulation and allowed the sector to expand as the social sector shrank.
Sonnet for Ochún
After my left arm I washed my right, neck, décolletage, and navel. I ate ground meat with large crystals of imported salt. The women and men who would stroke my hair if I asked, I thought of them fondly then sadly. At the flea market, what I touched with a fingernail was a copper lamp, a mundane painting of mountains, the cashier’s hum. I bought nothing I didn’t want. In the cul-de-sac, I found clouds on leashes, loose roosters. I thought thoughts ugly as clothespins.
Actors’ Playhouse announces complete lineup for 2023-24 Mainstage Season
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre recently announced the five Mainstage productions secured for its 2023-24 Mainstage Season. The complete lineup will include a new Cuban-American play by hometown heroes Richard Blanco and Vanessa Garcia, titled Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas (Nov. 8-Dec. 3); the fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the adored movie, Legally Blonde The Musical (Jan. 31-Feb. 25, 2024); the riveting, moving and awe-inspiring musical Caroline, or Change (Mar. 27-Apr.
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre 2023 – 2024 lineup | Featured#
Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre has announced the five Mainstage productions secured for its 2023 – 2024 Mainstage Season.
Actors' Playhouse Announces CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, LEGALLY BLONDE, And More For 2023-24 Mainstage Season
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre has announced the five Mainstage productions secured for its 2023 - 2024 Mainstage Season.
Property Investor News
Top Ten Challenges Facing Landlords (In England) Although 2023 is likely to be a testing year for landlords, we need to approach it with the entrepreneurialism and tenacity that brought us into the business. Here I address what I think are the main challenges ahead and how we are grappling with them. 1. Adapting your mortgage strategy One of my mortgages has just shot up to £1,575 from £890. A year ago, I was five year fixing at 1.65%.
Property Investor News
It is over two years since the government completed its consultation on improving energy efficiency in the private rented sector. The consultation document promised to report back in Spring 2021 and put forward regulations the following Autumn. I took part in the helpful hour on Talk TV recently and a desperately anxious landlord called up about having to get her property up to EPC C before the deadline in 2025. Many landlords approach me at events with similar concerns.
Poem: ‘Uncertain-Sea Principle’
Richard Blanco is a professional civil engineer and a poet. He read his poem “One Today” at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, who selected him to serve as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history. Credit: Nick Higgins
Property Investor News
How Rising Interest Rates Will Affect Landlords Richard Blanco, a portfolio landlord and London Representative for the National Residential Landlords Association, comments Commentary on the Bank of England’s latest interest rate rise from 1.25% to 1.75% on 3 August was somewhat apocalyptic: the biggest rise for 27 years and mortgage rates have tripled in the past year.
A Poem by Richard Blanco: 'Why I Needed To' - The Atlantic
September 4, 2022, 8 AM ET because I faithfully reply to every email from the absurd gods of urgency who punish my good deeds by leaving me empty when I empty my inbox … because I praise hating myself, broken into my calendar’s time-slotted tasks, slicing me thin with the thick duty of being everything yet nothing to anyone, not even to me … because I remember birthdays but forget my own and my mother’s … because she is bitter sweet as the Cuban coffee she brews after Sunday dinners … because...
Portland Stage Announces The 33rd Annual LITTLE FESTIVAL OF THE UNEXPECTED
Portland Stage has announced the 33rd Annual Little Festival of the Unexpected - a livestream reading series of New Works. The readings will be presented free in zoom livestream format as series of digital readings and discussions of the following plays: Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas by Richard Blanco and Vanessa Garcia on Friday, May 13 at 7:00 pm EST; Madeleines by Bess Welden on Friday, May 20 at 7:00 pm EST; and, Riverbank by Brendan Pelsue on Friday, May 27 at 7:00 pm EST.
Richard Blanco — Looking for The Gulf Motel
Guest Richard Blanco practiced civil engineering for more than 20 years. He is now an associate professor of creative writing at his alma mater, Florida International University. His books of nonfiction and poetry include Looking for the Gulf Motel and, most recently, How to Love a Country. Transcript Transcription by Heather Wang.
Tracing a Winding Path From Cuba to Florida to Maine With Poet Richard Blanco
Interview by Melanie Brooks Richard Blanco Illustration by Xia Gordon Poet Richard Blanco lives less than a mile from the village common of Bethel, a picturesque ski town in western Maine, in a home set against a wooded hillside. Inside, its high windows flood the rooms with natural light, and outside, an expansive second-story balcony boasts a stunning view of the Presidential Range. Quiet and secluded, the space is any writer’s dream retreat.
Actors' Playhouse at The Miracle Theatre
Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas By Richard Blanco and Vanessa Garcia Limited Engagement: Now Playing thru December 3, 2023 From Miami to Maine, and back to Miami, Sweet Goats & Blueberry Señoritas is about a Cuban American baker named Beatriz in Maine as she tries to determine whether she should stay with the community she’s developed, or reunite with her estranged mother in Miami.
Property Investor News
Courting Optimism Richard Blanco, portfolio landlord and London Representative for the NRLA, comments Landlords and lenders marked the 25th anniversary of the Buy to Let (BTL) loan on 24 September 2021. Way back in 1996 the Association of Residential Lettings Agents persuaded a small clutch of lenders including NatWest and Paragon to proffer mortgages funded by rental income. At the time they were viewed with scepticism, but by 2015 they had formed 16% of all mortgage lending.
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door by Elisabet Velasquez - Poems | Academy of American Poets
translated by Francisco Aragón I learned Spanish from my grandma mijito don’t cry she’d tell me on the mornings my parents would leave to work at the fish canneries my grandma would chat with chairs sing them old songs dance waltzes with them in the kitchen when she’d say niño barrigón she’d laugh with my grandma I learned to count clouds to recognize mint leaves in flowerpots my grandma wore moons on her dress Mexico’s mountains deserts ocean in her eyes I’d see them in her braids I’d touch...
Property Investor News
After Covid - What Next For Landlords? Richard Blanco, portfolio landlord and London Representative for the NRLA, comments As the worst of the pandemic is hopefully over, I’ve been reflecting on what we as landlords have learned over the past year. The top issue for me has been the importance of a positive relationship with tenants. It has helped me enormously around burgeoning numbers of unexpected moves, tenant mental health crises and requests for rent reductions.
Poem: And So We All Fall Down
Poem: And So We All Fall Down https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/magazine/poem-and-so-we-all-fall-down.html Richard Blanco uses English words and German inspiration to make sense of what these United States of America is worth. By Richard Blanco Selected by Reginald Dwayne Betts May 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Listen, I have Anselm Kiefer’s “The Language of the Birds” tattooed across my back. Kiefer is the artist who makes the world come to life for me.
The Perfect City Code
By Richard Blanco 1(a) Streets shall be designed Euro-Style with 300-ft right-of-ways, benches, and flowered traffic circles, to provide a distinct sense of beauty, regardless of cost. 1(b) There shall be a canopy of trees; these shall be your favorite: Giant Royal Palms, 25-ft high, whereas their fronds shall meet in cathedral-like arches with a continuous breeze that shall slip in our sleeves and flutter against our bodies so as to produce angel-like sensations of eternity.
La suavecita by Lupe Mendez - Poems
To love a country as if you’ve lost one: 1968, my mother leaves Cuba for America, a scene I imagine as if standing in her place—one foot inside a plane destined for a country she knew only as a name, a color on a map, or glossy photos from drugstore magazines, her other foot anchored to the platform of her patria, her hand clutched around one suitcase, taking only what she needs most: hand-colored photographs of her family, her wedding veil, the doorknob of her house, a jar of dirt from her...
Dear Beth by Andrea Cote-Botero - Poems
When I received the call I was in a store in Missoula, Montana. A store stocked with sparkling ephemera: glass fauna, tiny belfry bulbs, winter white birch and stump-lamps brandishing light cones, little shelves and branches hung with drops of ice and round silver baubles. I loved the store: it was cavernous, dark with wood and burlap, a ruddy brick loft with lithographs and monographs on birds or bracelets.
America the Beautiful Again
How I sang O, beautiful like a psalm at church with my mother, her Cuban accent scaling-up every vowel: O, bee-yoo-tee-ful, yet in perfect pitch, delicate and tuned to the radiant beams of stained glass light. How she taught me to fix my eyes on the crucifix as we sang our thanks to our savior for this country that saved us— our voices hymns as passionate as the organ piping towards the very heavens.
When I Became La Promesa by Peggy Robles–Alvarado - Poems | Academy of American Poets
What remains of my childhood are the fragmentary visions of large patios extending like an oceanic green mist over the afternoon. Then, crickets would forge in the wind their deep music of centuries and the purple fragrances of Grandmother always would receive without questions our return home.
Beacon Press: Grabbed
A gender-inclusive anthology of poetry and prose that addresses the physical and psychological act of being “grabbed,” or in any way assaulted.
Maine Yet Miami
Find and share the perfect poems. The soft harp of snowfall plucking through my pine trees lulls me to peace, yet I still hear the bongo of thunderstorms rapping the rooftop of my queer childhood, dancing to the clouds’ rage, raining away my sorrows. Though snow melts silently into the gurgles of my creek, my grandmother’s voice remains frozen in my ears, still calling me a sissy, yet praising me as her best friend.
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me by Richard Blanco - Poems | Academy of American Poets
A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 21, 2013 One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.
Say This Isn’t the End
... say we live on, say we’ll forget the masks that kept us from dying from the invisible, but say we won’t ever forget the invisible masks we realized we had been wearing most our lives, disguising ourselves from each other. Say we won’t veil ourselves again, that our souls will keep breathing timelessly, that we won’t return to clocking our lives with lists and appointments. Say we’ll keep our days errant as sun showers, impulsive as a star’s falling. Say this isn’t our end … ...
Richard Blanco On The Poetry Of The Home-Cooked Meal
For poet Richard Blanco, the fact we can still enjoy home cooking is “one of the few rays of light” poking through an otherwise gloomy life in quarantine. Blanco returned to Boston Public Radio on Friday for the monthly edition of “The Village Voice," where he read a selection of poems on the essential human ritual that is the home-cooked meal. "Originally I wanted to do some elegies, and maybe we’ll do that later on … but it was just so heavy,” he said.
My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns by Dante Di Stefano - Poems | Academy of American Poets
I was meant for all things to meet: to make the clouds pause in the mirror of my waters, to be home to fallen rain that finds its way to me, to turn eons of loveless rock into lovesick pebbles and carry them as humble gifts back to the sea which brings life back to me. I felt the sun flare, praised each star flocked about the moon long before you did.
América by Richard Blanco - Poems
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.
Richard Blanco — How to Love a Country
Krista Tippett, host: As a longtime civil engineer by day and poet by night, the Cuban American writer Richard Blanco has straddled the many ways a sense of place merges with human emotion to form the meaning of home and belonging. In 2013, he became the fifth poet to read at a presidential inauguration — also the youngest and the first immigrant. At Chautauqua, I invited him to speak and read from his books.
The On Being Project
I. Although Tía Miriam boasted she discovered at least half a dozen uses for peanut butter— topping for guava shells in syrup, butter substitute for Cuban toast, hair conditioner and relaxer— Mamá never knew what to make of the monthly five-pound jars handed out by the immigration department until my friend, Jeff, mentioned jelly. II.
“Complaint of El Río Grande”
for Aylin Barbieri I was meant for all things to meet: to make the clouds pause in the mirror of my waters, to be home to fallen rain that finds its way to me, to turn eons of loveless rock into lovesick pebbles and carry them as humble gifts back to the sea which brings life back to me. I felt the sun flare, praised each star flocked about the moon long before you did.
Cuando el tiroteo en El Paso ocurrió, un poeta destacado reflejó en lo que sucedió. Este es su poema
Richard Blanco, Special for USA TODAY Network Published 2:59 p.m. MT Oct. 23, 2019 Poet Richard Blanco was Barack Obama's inaugural poet in 2012, and now, in the wake of the El Paso shooting, he has an anthem for America. USA TODAY, Hannah Gaber PUBLICARTWEETLINKEDINENVIARMÁS INFORMACIÓN Richard Blanco, poeta inaugural del presidente Barack Obama, escribió este poema para USA TODAY.
Poet Richard Blanco Grapples With ‘The Hidden Racism In America’
01.16.18 In the latest installment of “Village Voice,” Blanco examined one of his own poems from the book “Boundaries,” titled “Easy Lynching On Herndon Avenue.” He was inspired to write it after seeing a present-day photo taken of Herndon Avenue in Mobile, Alabama, the site of the last recorded lynching in the United States in 1981.
Jennifer Lawrence Marries Art Dealer Cooke Maroney In Rhode Island
In this Sept. 24, 2019 file photo, actress Jennifer Lawrence smiles during a photocall before Dior's Ready To Wear Spring-Summer 2020 collection, unveiled during the fashion week, in Paris. Lawrence got married over the weekend in Rhode Island during a ceremony and reception studded with Hollywood stars.
The Long, Strange Journey Of 'Gung-Ho'
Gung Ho!, lobbycard, Rod Cameron, 1943. LMPC/Getty Images By Jess Kung October 18, 2019 Maybe you're a college freshman, emailing all of your professors before the semester starts to tell them how absolutely thrilled you are to be in their class. Or perhaps you're a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go. Or maybe you just had the best idea for, like, a startup.
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