How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

About James Crews

James Crews is the editor of the best-selling anthologies The Path to Kindness and How to Love the World which has been featured on NPRs Morning Edition in the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. His poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine Ploughshares The New Republic and The Christian Century. He collaborated with former US poet laureate Ted Kooser on American Life in Poetry which reaches millions of readers across the world. Crews holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of WisconsinMadison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of NebraskaLincoln. He teaches poetry at the University at Albany and lives with his husband in Shaftsbury Vermont. Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard a non-profit free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project and has received fellowships from Cave Canem the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.