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.…
I'm so grateful to editors, Alice Wolf Gilborn, Carol Cone, David Mook, Marcia Angermann, Peter Bradley and Monica Stillman for including "Spring Ritual" in Birchsong Volume II: Poetry Centered in Vermont. This piece is about the ritual each spring of needing to…
This week's poem is "I Confess" by Alison Luterman from Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, the anthology that I recently edited. I love moments like these when you just want to reach out to a stranger and spark…
This poem of close attention was written at my favorite cafe in Montreal--a place called Brume. Thanks to the editors of Third Wednesday for publishing it and naming it a Poem of Merit in the One Sentence Poetry Contest.
Young People's Poet Laureate, Naomi Shihab Nye, has chosen Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection as her Book Recommendation for August through the Poetry Foundation! Take a look at what she had to say below about this anthology. Naomi has…
This fall, every Saturday in September from 1pm-3:30pm, I'll be teaching a workshop on Igniting Creativity: Writing Poetry with Green Mountain Academy of Life-Long Learning (GMALL) in Manchester, Vermont. Please consider joining me if you can; no previous writing experience…
I was so pleased to have "Tablet" published in Coal Hill Review, a wonderful journal put out by Autumn House Press. This poem is from my newest manuscript, Bluebird, all about life in Vermont, and hopefully soon to be published!: Tablet by James Crews…
It was a lazy afternoon ride from New York City last year, and I didn't want to spend the hours looking at my cell phone. I'd left my earbuds at home too, so I sat there as we passed by…
Recently, I was lucky enough to read with numerous contributors to Healing the Divide at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul, Minnesota. The other readers included Margaret Hasse, Marge Saiser, Tom Hennen, Thomas R. Smith, and Connie Wanek. Connie and I have…