Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright

Name: Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright
Uploaded: 2014-07-16T00:10:17Z
Duration: P225S
Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright was recently named the U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. In this NewsHour encore piece, we traveled to the author’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2011 to listen to Wright read his work and share some of his sources of inspiration.

Clip: 07/15/2014 | 3m 45s

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright was recently named the U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. In this NewsHour encore piece, we traveled to the author’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2011 to listen to Wright read his work and share some of his sources of inspiration.

Aired: 07/15/14

Rating: NR

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Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright

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