This Needs To Be Said

Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), 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 writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan. About the author: JAMES CREWS’ work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Ploughshares, and The New Republic, as well as on former US poet laureate Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Writing & Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of four collections of awar