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PBS NewsHour | Inauguration Poet Richard Blanco Hopes to Give Poem of Unity | PBS

Duration: 06:44
Program: PBS NewsHour #10545
Broadcast Date: Jan. 18, 2013

Jeffrey Brown talks with Richard Blanco, the poet chosen to read at President Obama's second swearing-in, about what it means to be a part of the festivities. Blanco, a Spanish born Cuban-American, is the first Latino, openly gay, as well as the youngest poet to ever at a presidential inauguration.

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Post Date: January 18, 2013