Charles Simic to be named poet laureate

Charles Simic, two-time winner of the PEN Translation Award, will be named U.S. poet laureate by Congress today:

Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United States at 16. He started writing poetry in English only a few years after learning the language and has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, as well as essay collections, translations and a memoir.