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Also by Richard Blanco:

The Prince Of Los Cocuyos, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
For All Of Us, One Today, November 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Looking For The Gulf Motel, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Directions To The Beach Of The Dead, September 2005
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City Of A Hundred Fires, October 1998
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FOR ALL OF US, ONE TODAY
By: Richard Blanco

An Inaugural Poet's Journey

Beacon Press
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
120 pages
ISBN: 0807033804
EAN: 9780807033807
Kindle: B00EGMB5XE
Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry

For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic account of Richard Blanco's life-changing experiences as the inaugural poet in 2013. In this brief and evocative narrative, he shares the story of the call from the White House committee and all the exhilaration and upheaval of the days that followed. For the first time, he reveals the inspiration and challenges—including his experiences as a Latino immigrant and gay man—behind the creation of the inaugural poem, "One Today," as well as two other poems commissioned for the occasion ("Mother Country" and "What We Know of Country"), published here for the first time ever, alongside translations of all three of those poems into his native Spanish. Finally, Blanco reflects on his new role as a public voice, his vision for poetry's place in our nation's consciousness, his spiritual embrace of Americans everywhere, and his renewed understanding of what it means to be an American as a result of the inauguration.  Like the inaugural poem itself, For All of Us, One Today speaks to what makes this country and its people great, marking a historic moment of hope and promise in our evolving American landscape.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - January 1, 2014
Diane Rehm Show - NPR - November 19, 2013