Richard Blanco in “How to Love a Country,” a book of his poems that he published in 2019, recalls a comment he made to his mother shortly before he read a poem at President Obama’s second inauguration six years earlier. “I remember turning to my mother and whispering, ‘Mamá, I think we’re finally americanos,'” he wrote. “That indelible moment and my experiences as the first Latinx, immigrant and gay man to serve as Presidential Inaugural Poet set a newfound place for me at the proverbial American table, one that I had not expected.” “Indeed, I came to definitely understand and believe that my story — alongside the stories of millions like me from marginalized walks of life — is, and always been, a grand part of our country’s cultural and