Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 20, 2013

Poet Richard Blanco talks about delivering the inaugural poem at President Obama’s second inauguration in January 2013. In For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journal, he reveals the inspiration and challenges—including his experiences as a Latino immigrant and gay man—behind the creation of the inaugural poem, "One Today," as well as other poems commissioned for the occasion.

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