Join James Crews and Brad Peacock for a reading from their new book, Love is for All of Us, a luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love. Several contributors will be in attendance as well including Patrick Ramsay, Phillip Watts Brown and Andres Larios Brown. This is a ticketed event. The ticket is $5 and goes directly to our partner non-profit, Brain Food Books. About the Book This luminous and open-hearted anthology of poems from the LGBTQIA+ community proves that there is nothing more universal than love.
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 part of and allied with 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, 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 Contributors 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. Andrés Larios Brown (they/elle) is a Queer & Non-Binary mezcla bella (beautiful mix) of Guatemalan and Western European ancestry. They are a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Adjunct Instructor, and Healer. They have devoted their life and career to better understanding healing, hope, and resilience for marginalized people. They focus on queer identity development and healing acute, systemic, and intergenerational trauma for QTBIPOC communities. They live in Utah with their poet husband and in community with beautiful family and friends. Phillip Watts Brown (he/him) is the author of Boy with Flowers in His Mouth (Gold Line Press, 2025). He received an MFA in poetry from Oregon State University, and his poems have appeared in several journals, including Ninth Letter, The Common, Nimrod, Ruminate, and Spillway. He also serves as a poetry editor for the journal Halfway Down the Stairs. He and his husband, Andrés, live in Ogden, Utah. Find more of his poetry at www.phillipwattsbrown.com. Patrick Ramsay is a queer Utah-based poet who was raised along the wetlands of the Great Salt Lake. He studied English & creative writing at Weber State University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of Metaphor Literary Journal. He owns Happy Magpie Book & Quill, an independent pay-what-you-want bookshop in Ogden, Utah. His poems focus on land, heart, and community in the West. His debut poetry chapbook is Butterflies are Rare in Beehives. Read more at @writepatrick & patrickramsaypoet.com.

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