Monthly Writing Community

MindfulnessWriting
Written By James Crews

Each month, as part of my online writing community, The Monthly Pause, I offer an interview with a guest writer and several live writing sessions via Zoom. We explore what it means to take time out of our busy lives and meet the sacred pause that waits whenever we slow down and create community. I feature a new guest each month and discuss writing as a healing practice of self-compassion, a way to access the most authentic parts of ourselves. Recent guests include George Bilgere, Nikita Gill, Dorianne Laux, Barbara Crooker, and January Gill O’Neil. We also write together, using prompts to go in our own directions. Members have access to all past interviews and writing sessions, a private Facebook group, a member portal, and publishing resources. To subscribe to the journey, follow the link below. You can also try out the community and join for a single month here.

www.themonthlypause.com

James Crews

James Crews is the editor of several anthologies, including The Path to Kindness, and the best-selling, How to Love the World, which has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, in the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. He is also the author of four prize-winning collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. His poems have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and The Christian Century, and he has been sharing poetry with people all over the world for the last fifteen years. He loves introducing poetry to a wide range of readers, uplifting emerging poets, and offering entry points for reflection, meditation, and appreciation of life. His mission is to bring poetry to a mainstream audience through relatable poems about everyday experience. Crews leads Mindfulness & Writing retreats and lives with his husband in Shaftsbury, Vermont.

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