“I always say poetry is the only job in the world that when someone says, ‘You made me cry,’ you say, ‘Thank you.’ To be genuinely moved by the poem is the most incredible honor.”
The other day, the Poetry Foundation sat down with inaugural poet Richard Blanco to talk about all things poetry and presidential. He brings a lot of firsts to the title of US Inaugural Poet: first Latino, first openly gay, first civil engineer, and youngest ever to be in charge of poeticizing the presidential inauguration.
If you didn’t see it already, check out the clip of him reading his poem “One Day” at the inauguration.
