Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Charles Wright as the Library’s 20th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2014-2015. A former Fulbright fellow in Italy, Wright has authored numerous collections of verse on European modernism and the American South. An article in the New York Times quotes Billington on Wright’s work, "His combination of literary elegance and genuine humility—It’s just the rare alchemy of a great poet."