Description
An Indie Poetry Bestseller!
What the world needs now - featuring poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more.
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. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, 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. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.
Silly Rhymes and Limericks 
We Are Together 
Steep Tea 
Strong in the Rain 
Being Alive 
Dog Poems 
She Inserts the Key 
States of Happiness 
Welsh Women's Poetry 1450-2001 
Being Human 
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Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
The Art of Derek Walcott 
Shuffle and Squelch: Book and CD Pack 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Poems of Childhood