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By James Crews Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems was published by Grayson Books in 2017 and has since amassed quite the following among those interested in the intersections of mindfulness practice, meditation and poetry. I spoke with editors, Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson, via email in the summer of 2019 about […]
Copper Canyon Press, 2018 by James Crews Reading Ted Kooser’s work, I often think of what Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggeman wrote in his book, Sabbath as Resistance: “Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion cannot be faithful worship.” This same sense of “neighborliness” has been apparent in the poetry of Kooser, who […]
[ The Carl and Sandra Ellston Ars Poetica Literary Lecture Series will host writer, artist, and environmental researcher Dr. Heather Swan, May 10, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Zabel Hall, Lewis Auditorium on the Eastern Oregon University campus in La Grande. Swan will read from her collection of non-fiction, Where the Bees Thrive: Stories from the […]
Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017 $15 (paper) Reviewed by Grunge [James Crews is a contributing editor to this magazine–Editor] The sober, plain-spoken, gently ironic, and good-humored voice in James Crews’s second full-length collection, Telling My Father, confirms the promise evident in the poet’s first collection, The Book of What Stays. These new poems demonstrate […]
Comstock Review Press, 2017. $14 by James Crews Ted Kooser’s latest chapbook, At Home, might as well be called, At Home in the World, since even this abbreviated collection of poems shows a writer fully comfortable not only with himself, but also with his place in rural America. For decades now, Kooser’s Nebraska has become […]
By James Crews Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares, the editor of three literary anthologies, and the author most recently of the memoir, Leaving the Pink House (University of Iowa Press, 2015). She is also the author of the novels Haven’s Wake and the award-winning A Sandhills Ballad as well as the short-story collection […]
University of Iowa Press, 2015. by James Crews As I was flipping through cable channels recently, I couldn’t help but notice the abundance of shows about homes and home improvement—Property Brothers, Rehab Addict, House Hunters, Love It or List It—and the list goes on. Perhaps few other countries in the world are as obsessed with […]
University of Nebraska Press, 2014 by James Crews A book of hours was a daily devotional text popular with Christians in the Middle Ages. Each manuscript was written in the vernacular of the period and listed the appropriate prayers for specific times of the day, days of the week and months of the year, making […]
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014 by James Crews On a long flight years ago, the woman next to me kept interrupting my reading of Charles Wright’s Negative Blue: New and Selected Poems (2001) to make polite small talk. Eventually, she came to the inevitable question: “What do you do?” When I confessed I was a […]
by James Crews Connie Wanek is the author of three collections of poetry: Bonfire (1997), winner of the New Voices Award from New Rivers Press; Hartley Field (2002), and most recently, On Speaking Terms (2010), published by Copper Canyon Press. She is also co-editor, with Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro, of To Sing Along the […]