Bøker av James Crews

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. > Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Courage, and Self-Compassion is a book for those seeking to bring more self-care and creativity into their routines. Award-winning poet and author James Crews shares his poems with subjects ranging from vulnerability and grief to courage and gratitude. But more than just a poetry anthology, each poem is accompanied by James’s personal insight into his inspiration and state of mind when writing his poetry, and writing prompts to help inspire you get started on your writing journey. It is the perfect book for anyone who is interested in the poetic work of others or is inspired to try any kind of writing for themselves. But whether or not you want to write your own poetry, this deeply moving, and ultimately inspiring, practice in mindfulness can help bring self-compassion, courage, and creativity into your daily life. Award-winning author: James Crews is the recipient of the Prairie Schooner Prize and Cowles Prize. His writing has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Sun Magazine. The perfect companion: Unlocking the Heart is the perfect companion to Kindness Will Save the World and How to Love the World, as well the rest of James Crews’ growing bibliography. Foreword by bestselling poet and philosopher Mark Nepo, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Book of Awakening, pens a thoughtful and insightful foreword to Crews’ work.

James Crews's three anthologies of contemporary poems celebrating hope, wonder, kindness, and connection packaged in a beautiful gift box set with the addition of four illustrated poem cards suitable for framing.  These are the poems our world needs now. Together, the three books include over 300 poems by a diverse selection of leading and emerging contemporary poets, including Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, Jane Hirshfield, Tracy K. Smith, Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméris, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Joseph Bruchac, Nikita Gill, Linda Hogan, Mark Nepo, Alberto Ríos, and others. Special bonus feature: four frameable prints of poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Kimberly Blaeser, Paula Gordon Lepp, and a new poem by James Crews.

Celebrate everyday acts of kindnesses, big or small, and learn how to cultivate true connection and compassion with this journal by award-winning poet and author, James Crews.Cultivating kindness is a powerful exercise, proven to have a positive effect on a person's mental health and general well-being. But sometimes in this world, it may be difficult to recognize everyday acts of kindness, or how even small gestures can have a big impact. The perfect companion to James Crews' Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection, this journal inspires reflection of kindness in your own life, training you to hold onto your own moments of connection, both past and present, and celebrate the kindnesses you have given and received. With simple journaling prompts throughout, as well as inspirational stories from James Crews, this guided journal can help anyone, at any age or stage in life, illuminate the practice of kindness and help redefine what true connection and compassion means to them. Because no act of kindness is too small, and every act of kindness really can change the world. Ideal 5.75” x 8.25” size and durable flexibound format offer plenty of writing space while being small enough to travel easily Easy to write on archival paper takes pen and pencil nicely with 176 lined, acid-free pages The perfect companion to Kindness Will Save the World and the perfect addition to any James Crews collection Beautiful illustrations inspired by the design of Kindness Will Save the World encourage a calming mindset and provide a lovely backdrop for reflection Journal simply with guided prompts and samples of poetry that make it easy to relieve stress and promote kindness Award-winning: James Crews is an award-winning poet and writer. His work has been awarded the Prairie Schooner Prize and Cowles Prize. He has also been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Sun Magazine

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. With journaling prompts throughout and highlighted Kindness Practices, you are provided the tools to integrate the life-changing practice of kindness into your own life. BITE-SIZE WISDOM: At one to three pages in length each, the stories are heartfelt and thought-provoking, yet brief enough to quickly read during breakfast, on the train, or before bed 100 INSIGHTFUL ESSAYS: In Kindness Will Save the World, you’ll find dozens of inspirational stories highlighting compassion, all captured with a poet’s grace LESSONS FOR LIFE: With writing prompts and simple practices to integrate daily, Kindness Will Save the World will inspire you to lead a kindness-centered lifestyle, enriching your own life and the lives of those around you INSPIRATIONAL GIFT: With a beautiful cover and bite-sized wisdom stories, Kindness Will Save the World is an inspirational gift for anyone in search of hope and light in the world, from new graduates to new parents AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: James Crews is an award-winning poet and writer. His work has been awarded the Prairie Schooner Prize and Cowles Prize. He has also been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The Sun Magazine KINDNESS IS SELF-CARE: Kindness has been linked to improved mood, release of feel-good hormones, and better relationships

The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another. Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone. Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the disease has spread precisely because we aren¿t autonomous individuals disconnected from each other, but rather all belong to one great body of humanity. The pain inflicted by the pandemic is far from equally distributed. Yet it reveals ever more clearly how much we all depend on one another, and how urgently necessary it is for us to bear one another¿s burdens.It¿s a good time, then, to talk about solidarity. The more so because it¿s a theme that¿s also raised by this year¿s other major development, the international protests for racial justice following George Floyd¿s death. The protests, too, raised the question of solidarity in guilt, even guilt across generations. By taking up our common guilt with all humanity, we come into solidarity with the one who bears it and redeems it all. In Christ, sins are forgiven, guilt abolished, and a new way of living together becomes possible. This solidarity in forgiveness gives rise to a life of love.This issue of Plough explores what solidarity means, and what it looks like to live it out today, whether in Uganda, Bolivia, or South Korea, in an urban church, a Bruderhof, or a convent.

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep.