Devotional: A Book of Prayers for Daily Reflection

by Ben Cromwell

This book of verse includes tongue in cheek humor as well as deeply spiritual meditations on landscape, place, and what it means to be human.

50 pages, Paperback

Published June 8, 2012

About the author

Ben Cromwell grew up in Southern Illinois and spent many summers in the Ozarks of Missouri where he met his wife, Raven. He went to school in Tempe Arizona where he studied poetry with Jeannine Savard and graduated with a B.A. in English (Lit.) Shortly after graduation, Ben and Raven married and joined the Peace Corps. They spent service as education volunteers on the island of Abaiang in the Republic of Kiribati. Upon returning to the US, Ben and Raven hiked the Appalachian Trail over the course of three years, doing their longest stretch from February to July of 2008, and travelling on foot from Georgia to Pawling, NY. During that time, Ben started a Master's degree in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He completed that degree in the spring of 2011 and his master's thesis became the basis of his book, Touch. Ben and Raven had their son, Ezra in April 2011 and currently reside in Salt Lake City.