James Crews

Oct 8, 2023 | terrain.org | James Crews

James Crews is the editor of The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace & Renewal (Storey Publishing, 2023), a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life. Terrain.org will reprint five of these poems over the next five days. At a recent book launch event in Middlebury, Vermont for The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace & Renewal, a woman approached the table where I was sitting afterward.

Aug 27, 2023 | culturaldaily.com | James Crews

Add this to my list of small ecstasies:the scent of pencils made from cedar,wafting up as soon as I open the boxgiven to me by friends, the feel of realgraphite imprinting a notebook page. And the crimson stubs of new peoniesI watered this morning, beginningsof leaves and ruffled blooms all storedinside a stem no larger than my thumb. So much of what we imagine turns outdifferently, swerves off-course.

Feb 21, 2023 | poets.org | Faylita Hicks |James Crews |Toi Derricotte |Renée Watson

Faylita Hicks is an Afro-Latinx poet and the author of A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books, 2025), A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), and HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019). sign up for poem-a-dayReceive a new poem in your inbox dailyEmail Address“This poem reflects what drives us to seek out intimacy—the desire to be seen, felt, and known—even if it is just by ourselves.