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