{"product_id":"healing-the-divide-poems-of-kindness-and-connection-paperback","title":"Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Crews\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTed Kooser\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eHealing the Divide\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Crews' work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, Raleigh Review, Crab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe (London) Times Literary Supplement.\u003c\/i\u003e His first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of What Stays\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2010 \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize and received a \u003ci\u003eForeword Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Life in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed 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 \u003ci\u003eDelights \u0026amp; Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e and dozens of other literary journals. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eLocal Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps\u003c\/i\u003e, a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover finalist in nonfiction, also won the 2002 Friends of American Writers Award and \u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Gold Medal recognition for autobiographical writing. His newest collection, \u003ci\u003eKindest Regards: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760197009696,"sku":"9781732743458","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d242de6be41a0da30b575b1146be2ae4.webp?v=1780174168","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/healing-the-divide-poems-of-kindness-and-connection-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}