A soul-sustaining poetry collection to turn to when you need strength and clarity—an invitation to pause, awaken to your surroundings, and find wonder in the smallest moments, from bestselling editor James Crews.Slow down, awaken to your surroundings, and draw strength from the divine in the smallest details of your life. In The Sacred Everyday, award-winning poet James Crews invites us to find the pause in every moment and heal by cultivating a sense of w...

This deeply felt and relatable poetry anthology features a range of diverse, celebrated voices.The Path to Kindness includes poems from well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black poets include January Gill O’Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American poets include Kimberly Blaeser, Joy Harjo (current U.S. Poet Laureate),...

Poetry offers potent medicine for healing the heart.As a teacher of mindfulness and writing courses, retreats, and webinars for more than a decade, beloved poet, editor, and writer James Crews has seen again and again how poems can initiate a deep dive into our own experience, and how reflecting on poetry can open the floodgates of feeling. More and more people are turning to poetry as a source of comfort in times of grief, loss, and uncertainty, especially as our ...

Bluebird is a wide-ranging and open-hearted chronicle of the poet's life on an organic farm with his husband in rural Vermont. Written with clarity and attention to the moments that make life memorable, Crews urges us in his newest collection "To live unbound by time/and mind—to grow, speak, touch and taste/at a pace that feels more real."

Find solace and connection in a world that feels increasingly divided with this collection of poems celebrating kindness, compassion, and shared humanity.Healing the Divide offers a powerful antidote to the negativity of modern life, inviting readers to embrace ordinary moments of grace and connection. Through the intimate focus of poetry, this anthology uncovers the beauty and vulnerability in everyday interactions, reminding us of our shared humanity. Ex...

This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love.Edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon, these compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love—romantic love, family love, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are gathered from a diverse group of contemporary writers, both part of a...

James Crews’ newest poetry collection gives readers permission to find the pause in every moment and cultivate healing from a sense of everyday awe for nature, each other, and our fractured world.With the world returning to its old, unsustainable pace (and expecting us to return with it), we all must learn how to make time to slow down, to pause, and to appreciate the beauty around us. In this inspiring collection of poems, award-winning poet and mindfulness educat...

Learn how to bring more self-care and creativity into your life with personal insights about the writing process, inspiring prompts, poems, and daily devotionals from award-winning poet James Crews.Writing can be cathartic. It can be healing. And you do not have to be a writer to benefit from the healing and meditative effects of writing. Likewise, you do not have to be a meditator to experience the life-changing power of mindfulness and self-compassion. But someti...

From the editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, a collection of accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.As James Crews writes in the introduction: "Wonder opens our senses and helps us stay in touch with a humbling sense of our own human smallness in the face of unexpected beauty and the delicious mysteries of life on this planet."

With essays, reflection prompts, and tips from award-winning poet and mindfulness teacher James Crews, learn how to integrate the life-changing practice of kindness into your own routine.Kindness Will Save the World inspires reflection on one’s own life, how to find the positive in little moments, and how to radiate kindness to those around you. Read one of the 100 uplifting essays each morning or night and gain inspiration for the new day ahead.Wi...

What the world needs now is this inspiring poetry anthology—featuring poems from today's most renowned poets.More and more, people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy H...

A soul-sustaining poetry collection to turn to when you need strength and clarity—an invitation to pause, awaken to your surroundings, and find wonder in the smallest moments, from bestselling editor James Crews.Slow down, awaken to your surroundings, and draw strength from the divine in the smallest details of your life. In The Sacred Everyday, award-winning poet James Crews invites us to find the pause in every moment and heal by cultivating a sense of w...