It’s a shiver that climbs the trellisof the spine, each tingle a bright whitemorning glory…
Poetry
Gratefulness
by James Crews
The common understanding of the word “gratitude” simply does not convey the magnitude of gratefulness and…
Poetry
Telling My Father
by James Crews
I found him on the porch that morning,sipping cold coffee, watching a crowdip down from…
Practices
How to Love the World: A Poetry Practice Series
by James Crews
A four-week poetry practice guided by poet, James Crews.
Practices
How to Love the World: Turn Everything Off
by James Crews
Welcome to week four of our four-week practice, How to Love the World: Poems of…
Practices
How to Love the World: Grateful for Nature
by James Crews
Welcome to week three of our four-week practice, How to Love the World: Poems of…
Practices
How to Love the World: Take This Joy to Go
by James Crews
Welcome to week two of our four-week practice, How to Love the World: Poems of…
Practices
How to Love the World: Grateful for Small Things
by James Crews
Welcome to week one of our four-week practice, How to Love the World: Poems of…
Poetry
Winter Morning
by James Crews
When I can no longer say thank youfor this new day and the waking into…
Poetry
Neighbors
by James Crews
Where I'm from, people still waveto each other, and if someone doesn't,you might say of…
Poetry
Thanksgiving: Stepping in with Love
by James Crews
Poet James Crews is editing two new anthologies of poetry that center on gratefulness and…
Poetry
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by James Crews
I know it's summer when we wade outinto the field and pick these crisp wonders,tiny…
James Crews
About the author
James Crews is the author of the essay collection, Kindness Will Save the World, and editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies: Healing the Divide, The Path to Kindness, How to Love the World, and The Wonder of Small Things. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, People Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment, and his poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and Prairie Schooner. James lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont. For more information, visit: jamescrews.net.