Podcast
You’re invited to join us for our monthly podcast! Our episodes will feature conversations between Parker and Carrie, focused on Growing Edge topics. Occasionally, we’ll invite some wise and wonderful friends of ours to share their insights on the topic we’re exploring.
You can listen here on our website or subscribe to our show via Apple Podcasts or Stitcher and get the latest episode every week.
Carrie Newcomer Co-host of The Growing Edge Podcast
Parker J. Palmer, Co-host of The Growing Edge Podcast
producer, director & engineer of The Growing Edge Podcast
Allison Quantz is a radio and podcast producer living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is senior producer at With Good Reason, an award-winning, nationally-broadcast radio show from Virginia Humanities. Alongside her work at With Good Reason, Allison is an adjunct instructor of audio production at Indiana University. In 2015, she launched The Briefing from SiriusXM and went on to produce it until late 2017. Her work has also been heard on BackStory with the American History Guys, Café Indiana, Virginia Public Radio, Word of Mouth, Distillations, and PRX Remix.
Photo by Anna Powell Teeter
I hope you’ll join Parker and I for this heart expanding conversation with poet, James Crews. In this conversation we talk about slowing down and becoming more awake to daily wonder, drawing strength from the divine in the smallest details, We discuss the importance of joy and beauty, the inspiration found in the natural world, change and impermanence, and the process of grief and healing. We also talk about the welcoming and interactive nature of his books and anthologies.
For more about James and his luminous poetry, books, anthologies, retreats, courses and his “Poetry is Life” Substack offering visit www.jamescrews.netrews.net or Substack: James Crews - Poetry Is Life
To Purchase “The Sacred Everyday: Poems of Peace & Stillness” visit Bookshop.org
Here is a bit more about James and his works —James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry and essays—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection.
His last collection “Turning Toward Grief”is a beautiful book about the process of loss, grief and healing. His newest book, “Everyday Sacred: Poems of Peace and Stillness” will be released October 27th. He has a beautiful Substack offering called “Poetry is Life” James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.