Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection

press release: Healing the Divide 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. The anthology features work 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. 

The reading will include poet and editor James Crews; local poets Heather Swan, Jodi Vander Molen, Dylan Weir, and John McCracken will read their own work as well as selections from the anthology. A brief discussion will follow.