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May 15, 2024 | 
property-investor-news.com | Richard Blanco
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.
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May 14, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Philip Metres |Bei Dao |Richard Blanco
Susan L. Leary. Trio House, $18 trade paper (94p) ISBN 978-1-949487-23-7In 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.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
audiobooks.com | Richard Blanco
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.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Richard Blanco
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.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
property-investor-news.com | Richard Blanco
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.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
poetryfoundation.org | Richard Blanco
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.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
property-investor-news.com | Richard Blanco
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.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
poets.org | Leslie Sainz |Carolina Ebeid |Richard Blanco
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.
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May 30, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | A.A. Cristi |Richard Blanco |Vanessa Garcia |Sean Grennan
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre has announced the five Mainstage productions secured for its 2023 - 2024 Mainstage Season.
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Mar 17, 2023 | 
property-investor-news.com | Richard Blanco
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 strategyOne of my mortgages has just shot up to £1,575 from £890. A year ago, I was five year fixing at 1.65%.
