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The Path to Kindness

By James Crews & Danusha Laméris
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Publisher Description

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), and Linda Hogan. The collection also features international voices, including Canadian poets Lorna Crozier and Susan Musgrave.

Presented in the same perfect-in-the-hand format as How to Love the World, the collection includes:
*Prompts for journaling and exploration of selected poems
*A book group guide
*Bios of all the contributing poets
*Stunning cover art by award-winning artist Dinara Mirtalipova

A foreword by Danusha Laméris, along with her popular poem "Small Kindnesses," is also included.   

This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
 

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Thumbs Up“Absolutely loved the variety of authors in this book. I have been looking for new poets to follow and clearly I have struck gold! I also loved how each poem flowed so seamlessly into the next am- woven together beautifully! 💕”

About James Crews

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies, including The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and How to Love the World, which has over 100,000 copies in print, Healing the Divide, and is the author of is the author of the essay collection, Kindness Will Save the World. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, and in People Magazine, The Boston GlobeThe New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in PloughsharesThe New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net
Danusha Laméris is the author of two books: The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), which was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize, and Bonfire Opera (University of Pittsburgh, 2020), which won the Northern California Book Award. Winner of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, she teaches in the Pacific University low-residency MFA Program and co-hosts with James Crews the Poetry of Resilience online seminars. She lives in Santa Cruz County, California. 

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