“From words, carefully chosen, purposefully arranged, emerges a shared experience and mutual understanding” – Lee Ann Thill, in the introduction of No-Sugar Added Poetry.
I received a copy of No-Sugar Added Poetry at the 2010 Roche Social Media Summit (Roche Diagnostics sponsored the publishing of this book). I recently sat down and read through it, and was touched by these poems from cover to cover.
In 2008, a member of the TuDiabetes.org community, Sohair Abdel-Rahman, dreamed of a poetry book written by the members of TuDiabetes.
In 2009 the Diabetes Hands Foundation (the non-profit organization behind TuDiabetes.org and the Spanish EsTuDiabetes.org ) held a poetry contest. They had to choose from over 100 beautiful poems, which must have been an impossible task, to bring this book to life.
The No-Sugar Added Poetry book is organized by the stages of life with diabetes – from diagnosis to acceptance – all described through poetry. It features work by many brilliant people:
J. Donovan, Katherine Marple, J. Davis Harte, R. Pandolph, Sugarbabie, J. Goodman, Terry Keelan, Sohair Abdel-Rahman, Judith Catterall, Jerry Nairn, D. Barh, Miriam E. Tucker, Amber Gerstung, Linda Gauvin-Miller, Melissa B.L., Heidi V. Shell, Kh
