How to Love a Country

A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses. Richard Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes.

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Boundaries

Boundaries is a collaborative project between Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco and contemporary landscape photographer Jacob Bond Hessler. Blanco’s poems and Hessler’s photographs together investigate the visible and invisible boundaries of race, gender, class, and ethnicity, among many others.

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Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar

Matters of the Sea / Cosas del mar is a commemorative bilingual chapbook that beautifully reproduces Richard Blanco’s stirring poem presented during the historic reopening ceremony of the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba on August 14, 2015.

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One Today

One Today is a lush and lyrical, patriotic commemoration of America from dawn to dusk and from coast to coast. Brought to life here by beloved, award-winning artist Dav Pilkey, it is a tribute to a nation where the extraordinary happens every single day.

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Cuba Then: Rare and Classic Images from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection

Vintage photos from one of the largest archives of Cuban photography in the world capture the island’s history. With nearly 300 exceptional images and a foreword and poetry by Richard Blanco, the poet selected for President Obama's second inauguration, this is a multifaceted look at Cuba, then.

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The Prince of los Cocuyos

A vivid account of Blanco's coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his effort to contend with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. This book evokes the complexities and glories—and humor—of navigating his two imaginary worlds: the Cuba of the 1950s that his family longed for and his own idealized America.

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For All of Us, One Today

Blanco reveals the inspiration and challenges behind the creation of the inaugural poem, “One Today” and reflects on his life-changing role as a public voice since the inauguration, his spiritual embrace of Americans everywhere, and his vision for poetry’s new role in our nation’s consciousness.

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Boston Strong

A commemorative chapbook that beautifully reproduces Blanco’s poignant poem presented at the Boston Strong Concert, benefiting the people most affected by the tragic events that occurred on April 15, 2013 during the Boston Marathon.

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One Today

A commemorative chapbook of the poem commissioned by President Barack Obama presented during his second Inauguration, on January 20th, 2012.

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Looking for The Gulf Motel

A genealogy of the heart tracing the emotional legacy Blanco’s family has shaped—and continues shaping—his Latino identity, sexual identity, and understanding of the big questions of life and death.

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Directions to the Beach of the Dead

A lyrical examination of the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives “Should I live here? Could I live here?” This book observes the restlessness that threatens from merely staying put and the fear of too many places and too little time.

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City of a Hundred Fires

Blanco’s first book and the recipient of the acclaimed Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, City of a Hundred Fires explores the yearnings and negotiation of cultural identity as a Cuban-American.

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