Love is for All of Us

Phoenix Books Rutland is excited to welcome celebrated Vermont poets James Crews, Brad Peacock, and Bianca Amira Zanella to celebrate the new poetry anthology, Love is for All of Us!About the book:Love is for All of Us is edited by James Crews with his husband, Brad Peacock, and illustrated by Lisa Congdon. These compassionate poems of connection and affirmation are a celebration of all kinds of love-romantic, family, friendship, self-love, and love for nature. The poems are gathered from a diverse group of contemporary writers, both allied and part of the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special focus on queer, nonbinary, and transgender poets.Contributors include Andrea Gibson, Ellen Bass, Nikita Gill, Mark Doty, Audre Lorde, Richard Blanco, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Danez Smith, Joy Ladin, Carl Phillips, Li-Young Lee, Phoenix Books' own Bianca Amira Zanella, and many others. Brief essays called "Stories of Becoming" act as touchstones throughout the book, telling the inspiring and touching stories of LGBTQIA+ people whose experiences may bring hope to others.About the authors:James Crews is the editor of numerous anthologies, including New England Book Award winner The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and How to Love the World, which has sold nearly 100,000 copies. He and his work have been featured on NPR's Morning Edition and in People magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The Sun, The New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of southern Vermont.Brad Peacock is a veteran, writer, and long-time organic farmer from Shaftsbury, Vermont, whose passion in to bring people closer to one another and the natural world. His poems have been published in several anthologies, and his op-ed pieces have appeared in newspapers across the United States. He lives with his husband on forty acres that they are restoring to a habitat for pollinators and native species.Bianca Amira Zanella (she/they) is a queer Vermont-based performance poet, multidisciplinary artist, and poetic medicine healer. Zanella serves the community using poetry as a path to wholeness as The Paper Poet, designing experiences to decrease hardship while increasing heartship. Her poems have appeared in Writing by Heart, The Artful Mind, and The Mountain Troubadour. She received the Corrine Eastman Davis Memorial Award, Arthur Wallace Peach Memorial Award, and is the former President of the Poetry Society of Vermont. Zanella’s experimental poem-films, interactive sculptural poems, and poem-paintings have been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, SPACE Pop Up Gallery, and Stone Valley Arts.

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Phoenix Books Rutland, 2 Center Street, Rutland, United States