About & Press

About James

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.

Articles & Interviews


The Christian Science Monitor

How a Search for Kindness Grew Into an Anthology of Poems

The Boston Globe

The Mission is Joy

NPR Morning Edition

How Poetry Helped to Guide People During the Pandemic

The Writer’s Digest

Art in Response to Negativity

Emerging Form Podcast

Creative Mindfulness

The Dolewite Podcast

The Path to Kindness Through Poetry

The Limelight Podcast

Poetry’s Gentle Guidance

Poetry Spoken Here Podcast

James Crews on The Path to Kindness

Read to Me Podcast

How to Love the World

The Slowdown Podcast with Tracy K. Smith

Telling My Father

The Slowdown Podcast with Ada Limón

Daylight Saving, Age Five

The Gwarlingo Sunday Poem

Self-Compassion

Conversations on Kansas Public Radio

On The Path to Kindness

Poets Speak on Brattleboro Community TV

A Reading with Danusha Laméris, Kim Rosen, Jane Hirshfield, and Michael Kleber-Diggs

Hearth & Fire with Poetry of Resilience

An Interview with Chard deNiord

Third Place Books

How to Love the World Reading with Ross Gay