Bookworm festival opens with 'Obama's poet' in Beijing

Hours after his plane landed in Beijing on Friday, Richard Blanco was reading three of his poems at the city's Bookworm store.

In his first public appearance in China, the poet, who read at a United States presidential inauguration, spoke to his audience of 200 about home, sense of belonging and traveling.

"It's all of us as human beings that have to belong to something, some place ..." Blanco said. "I'd like to share my perfect place with you (with a poem)."