Meet the new U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright

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.

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