Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732743452 ISBN 13: 9781732743458

Publisher: Green Writers Press, 2019

Synopsis

This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther King called the "beloved community," a place where we see each other as the neighbors we already are. Healing the Divide urges us, at this fraught political time, to move past the negativity that often fills the airwaves, and to embrace the ordinary moments of kindness and connection that fill our days.

About this title

Book Description

We believe that this book could spark a new movement toward recognizing everyday moments of kindness in our lives. In the same way that folks like Oprah encourage us to keep gratitude lists, we think the poems in here will inspire readers to keep a record of such moments of connection, posting photos and stories of their own "moments of kindness" on social media. 

Some of our most well-known poets like Jane Hirshfield, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo and Marie Howe (who have quite a following and wide readership) appear alongside up-and-coming poets, who have already embraced the spirit of this anthology on Facebook, Instagram and elsewhere. If you read the bios of our poets, you'll see that many have served or continue to serve as poet laureates of states and counties across the nation, so the potential reach of this book extends far beyond that of the usual poetry (or prose) markets.

From the Author

James Crews’ work has appeared in Ploughshares, Raleigh Review, Crab Orchard Review and The New Republic, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to The (London) Times Literary Supplement. His first collection of poetry, The Book of What Stays, won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and received a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award. Other awards include residencies from the Sitka Center for the Arts and Caldera Arts as well as two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes. He holds an MFA in creative writing / poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he worked for Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column and grew to love the Great Plains. He now lives on an organic farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont, just a few miles from the Robert Frost Stone House.

Ted Kooser, 13th United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), is a retired life insurance executive who lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife, Kathleen Rutledge. His collection Delights & Shadows was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review and dozens of other literary journals. His memoir, Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps, a Barnes & Noble Discover finalist in nonfiction, also won the 2002 Friends of American Writers Award and ForeWord Magazine’s Gold Medal recognition for autobiographical writing. His newest collection, Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2018

Edition details

• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1732743452
• ISBN 13: 9781732743458
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Crews James