“We are one Boston. We are one community. As always, we will come together to help those most in need. And in the end, we will all be better for it. ” —Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Boston
like one: an anthology of humorous & uplifting poems created to raise money for The One Fund, the charity for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings
Former Jersey City Poet Laureate Aaron M.P. Jackson, Montclair resident Nicolas Destino and Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Founder and Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College are three of the poets featured in Like One, an anthology of humorous and uplifting poems created to raise money for The One Fund, the charity for the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings.
Rutgers alumni in the book include former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Editor Deborah Finkelstein, and Brett Goldberg, owner of Chocolate Chili Publishing. Other alumni from New Jersey universities include Kevin Carey, who has an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson, and Joy Ladin, who has a PhD from Princeton.
Two of New Jersey’s most famous poets, Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, are also featured in the book. David Trinidad, who has taught at Princeton and Rutgers, is also part of the book as are three poets who spent part of their childhood in New Jersey, Miriam Sagan, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Julie Kane, the Poet Laureate of Louisiana.
The book encompasses a diverse blend of poets from all over the U.S. with one common goal: building a better world. Poets created a book that would be used to heal the community and the country while raising money for The One Fund. As part of the healing process, poets were encouraged to send poems that healed and lifted the spirit with humor and joy. Some of the poems will make readers laugh out loud. Others will take readers on an enlightening journey through the literary landscape of love, family, and nature. Poetry creates catharsis. Its power is wrapped in the creative harnessing of raw emotion. It heals and nourishes the spirit while showing the mind a new way to view the world and new language to express that view. It allows people to connect in new ways and generates new thought patterns to heal.
“At moments like this, we are one state, one city, and one people.” —Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Like One is available as a paperback on Amazon.com. An ebook will be published soon. Visit www.likeonepoetry.com
