How to Love the World

"How to Love the World is for every one of us who welcomes or misses the fullness of joy and the wholeness of days." — Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People’s Poet Laureate, Poetry Foundation

"You’ll find lots of poets to love within these pages… this book is exactly what we need in these times – or in any." — Elizabeth Berg, author of I'll Be Seeing You and The Story of Arthur Truluv

"The anthology represents a wide range of poetic voices revealing gratitude as an essential emotion that is simple and complex, all around us but also elusive." — The Boston Globe

"This uplifting collection of poems from masterful poets (Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, and more) will not only move you but also remind you that joy can be found during times that feel dark. There are some that are tinted in longing (like “Bus Stop” by Laure-Anne Bosselaar) and some that serve as a beautiful reminder of appreciation (“Thankful For Now” by Todd Davis). The visceral, weighty words from these poets invoke meaning in things that may seem meaningless, pushing us to slow down and reflect." — BuzzFeed

"Readers looking for poetic antidotes to today’s chronic anxiety and frenetic news cycle might enjoy turning to this new and highly readable collection. Spend some time with joy and gratitude through deeply felt work from some of poetry’s most trusted voices including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, Ellen Bass, Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirschfield, and others often featured in the pages of Orion. Interspersed with invitations to write and reflect, this book is designed for discussion and is classroom-ready." — Orion Magazine

Préface
This beautifully curated selection of more than 100 uplifting poems of gratitude by well-known and emerging poets, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and more, invites gratefulness into daily life and includes opportunities for reflection and writing, topics for discussion, and reading group questions.

Auteur

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 Globe, The 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 *Ploughshares, The New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net
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 Writer’s Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.

Texte du rabat
Discover the gift of poetry!

From humorous and uplifting to meditative and moving, these poems provide something for every mood and moment. One hundred of our best-loved and emerging writers offer these relatable reminders to slow down, rediscover the beauty and gifts of ordinary life, and reconnect with the things that matter most. Includes poems from:

Tracy K. Smith
Ross Gay
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ellen Bass
Joy Harjo
Mark Nepo
Jane Hirshfield
Ted Kooser
Amanda Gorman
January Gill O'Neil
Danusha Lameris
Alberto Rios

Accompanied by prompts for reflection, these are poems you'll return to often for inspiration and creative exploration of life's daily gifts.

Résumé
**An Indie Poetry Bestseller!

What the world needs now – featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more.

More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Foreword, Ross Gay
The Necessity of Joy, James Crews
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Hope
Ted Kooser, Dandelion
Barbara Crooker, Promise
Amanda Gorman, At the Age of 18 - Ode to Girls of Color
Dorianne Laux, In Any Event
Laura Grace Weldon, Astral Chorus
Garret Keizer, My Daughter's SInging
David Romtvedt, Surprise Breakfast
Ron Wallace, The Facts of Life
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Fifteen Years Later, I See How It Went
Kathryn Hunt, The Newborns
Christen Pagett, Shells
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Bus Stop
January Gill O'Neil, Hoodie
Terri Kirby Erickson, Angel
Todd Davis, Thankful for Now
Reflective Pause: The Joy of Presence
Barbara Crooker, Autism Poem: The Grid
Diana Whitney, Kindergarten Studies the Human Heart
Gail Newman, Valentine's Day
Abigail Carroll, In Gratitude
Michelle Wiegers, Held Open
David Graham, Listening for Your Name
Heather Swan, Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light
Annie Lighthart, A Cure against Poisonous Thought
Mary McCue, Forgiveness
Heather Lanier, Two Weeks after a Silent Retreat
Reflective Pause: The Kingdom at Hand
Jane Hirshfield, Today, When I Could Do Nothing
Laura Ann Reed, Red Thyme
Laura Foley, The Once Invisible Garden
James Crews, Down to Earth
Freya Manfred, Old Friends
Brad Peacock, Let It Rain
Molly Fisk, Against Panic
Naomi Shihab Nye, Over the Weather
Paula Gordon Lepp, Notions
Ellen Bass, Any Common Desolation
Reflective Pause: Returning to the World
Mark Nepo, Language, Prayer, and Grace
Jane Hirshfield, The Fish
Patricia Fargnoli, Reincarnate
Linda Hogan, Innocence
Farnaz Fatemi, Everything Is Made of Labor
Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Apple Blossoms
Nancy Miller Gomez, Growing Apples
Danusha Lameris, Aspen
Margaret Hasse, With Trees
Kim Stafford, Shelter in Place
Heather Newman, Missing Key
Michael Kiesow Moore, Climbing the Golden Mountain
Laura Foley, To See It
Jacqueline Jules, Unclouded Vision
Danusha Lameris, Improvement
Reflective Pause: Grateful for Small Victories
Jack Ridl, After Spending the Morning Baking Bread…