Gay poet Richard Blanco’s life has straddled many worlds, but his work always brings him home… wherever that may be ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com When Richard Blanco stepped onto the podium atop the Capitol steps on Jan.
20, 2013, to deliver a reading of his new poem “One Today,” he simultaneously stepped into the history books: Only the fifth inaugural poet ever, and the youngest, the first immigrant, first Latino and first openly gay one.