How to Love the World

by james crews • 2021

What the world needs now is this inspiring poetry anthology—featuring poems from today's most renowned poets. 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. These poets capture the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World 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. Includes a reading group guide that can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.