Elizabeth Berg has been talking up my anthology, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection in The Week and The Chicago Tribune. I'm so humbled by her wonderful support. Here's what she had to say, with links below: "If you think you don't like poetry,…
Please take a look at my review of Barbara Crooker's wondrous new book of poetry, Some Glad Morning, published at The Christian Century: https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/poems-hope-gratitude-and-perspective
Take a moment to read and listen to my poem, "Winter Morning," published by the kind folks at A Network for Grateful Living on Gratefulness.org: https://gratefulness.org/resource/winter-morning/
Please take a moment to read Marjorie Saiser's wonderful poem, "Thanksgiving for Two," and my reflection on the holiday season here.
The practice Heather Swan refers to in the last stanza of “Bowl” is called kintsugi, which in Japanese means literally, “golden joinery.” Yet this drive to highlight the cracks in something—what some might call its failures—goes against the message most…
You can watch me reading poems from Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection as well as a few of my own poems at the Bookstock Literary Festival in Woodstock, Vermont below. Many thanks to the tireless work of the organizers,…
Many, many thanks to Susan Jefts and The Rutland Herald newspaper for running this wonderful piece about my poem, "Down to Earth," dedicated to my husband, Brad Peacock. I don't think I've ever had anyone respond so deeply and truly…
I love this poem by Margaret Hasse from Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, an anthology that I recently published. This is part of kindness, after all, reaching out to neighbors who may need our skills and attention, and teaching…
Thanks to Kristi Nelson and Katie Rubinstein at A Network for Grateful Living for publishing "More" at Gratefulness.org! More by James Crews I know it’s summer when we wade out into the field and pick these crisp wonders, tiny cucumbers…
Please join me on Friday, September 27th from 1-4:30pm for a symposium at UMass-Amherst: Radical Aliveness and Belonging: Exploring the Intersections of Spirituality and Social Change. I'll be reading poetry and speaking with other spiritual scholars and thinkers, including Br.…