Join poets James Crews, Brad Peacock, and Jess Bouchard for an evening of uplifting, heartfelt poems and stories that explore love in all its many forms–romantic love, self-love, family love, and love of our natural world. They’ll be sharing from the newly released book, Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends (Storey Publishing/Hachette), which is already touching readers all across the world.

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 over 100,000 copies in print. 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 recently joined the New York Zen Center as a faculty member in the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship Program. He teaches mindfulness and writing throughout the United States, and 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 is 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 rocky acres that they are restoring to a habitat for pollinators and native species.

Jess Bouchard (she/her) is a tea-partying, poetry writing, quirky English teacher turned Principal living in southern Vermont with her spouse and their children. When she’s not running a school, she leads Queer Connect, an LGBTQIA+ organization empowering youth to live their best and truest lives. She’s grateful for this life and journey!