Northshire Live: How to Love the World with James Crews

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Join editor James Crews and poet contributors as they celebrate the release of "How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope."

Join Northshire Bookstore, editor James Crews, and guest contributors to celebrate the publication of <a href="https://www.northshire.com/book/9781635863864" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">How to Love the World</a>, an anthology which offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including readings by Jane Hirshfield, Danusha Lameris, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, January Gill O'Neil, and James Crews.What the world needs now – featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more.More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.James Crews is the author of three collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. He is also the editor of the popular Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and The Christian Century, and have been reprinted in former US poet laureate Ted Kooser’s weekly newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” and featured on Tracy K. Smith’s podcast, The Slowdown. Crews holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He worked with Ted Kooser on “American Life in Poetry,” which reaches millions of readers across the world. He teaches poetry at the University at Albany and lives with his husband on an organic farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont.If you have questions about this or any Northshire event, please e-mail us at events@northshire.com.

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