Northshire Bookstore Event: James Crews and Brad Peacock on “Love Is for All of Us”

(Manchester Center, VT) On May 10 at 4 pm, Northshire Bookstore will host James Crews, Brad Peacock, T-M Baird, and Jess Bouchard as they celebrate the release of Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness and Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community and Friends. 

This luminous and open-hearted anthology of inspiring poems and essays from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. The compassionate poems of connection and affirmation included in the book 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 part of and allied with the LGBTQIA+ community, with a special focus on queer, nonbinary, and transgender poets.

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.

T-M Baird’s work has appeared in Awake in the World and Deep Wild, among others. They write primarily on environmental ethics and mystical poetics. T-M taught toddlers, sold books, and ran a small post office before returning to their native northeast to focus on growing vegetables with their sweetheart and mixed-breed mutt.

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!

For more information on these or other events, email events@northshire.com, or visit the Northshire Bookstore website at www.northshire.com.

Northshire Bookstore, originally founded in 1976, has locations in Manchester, Vermont and Saratoga Springs, NY as well as at Northshire.com. Our large but intimate general bookstores carry the largest selection of categories and genres including new & used fiction, history, cooking, arts and rare author-signed editions. We also have entire floors devoted to Children’s Books and toys, a full line of stationery, magazines, music, cards, calendars, locally-sourced foods and many fine gifts from clothing to jewelry. Open to the public daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and 24/7 online with free shipping at www.northshire.com