Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Richard Blanco (whanau i te Hui-tanguru 15, 1968) he kaitoi Amerika, kaikorero a te iwi, kaituhi me te kaipūkaha. Ko ia te kaitoi tuarima ki te pānui i te whakarewatanga o te perehitini o te United States, i te pānui i te poem "One Today" mo Barack Obama
te whakatūnga tuarua. Ko ia te manene tuatahi, ko te Latina tuatahi, ko te tangata takirua takirua tuatahi, ā, i taua wā, ko ia te tangata taitamariki rawa hei kaitoi whakatū a U.S.