Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
The All of It—The Beauty and Sorrow
In Beauty and In Sorrow:
Poetry as a Tool for Meeting the All of It
Every experience in life is worthy of our careful attention—and poetry provides a way to meet each experience with wonder, and a willingness to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the story of our world.
Though a poem can’t change the facts, it can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything.
Together we’ll read poems, converse about them, use them as launching points for our own writing, and talk about process. We’ll explore playing with metaphors and paradox, letting curiosity lead us past the edge of what we think we know into new possibilities for framing a moment.
We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer weaves a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice, to listen into your true heart-voice. More a playshop than a workshop.
All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome. No poetry experience needed, just an open tender heart!
Spending time with Rosemerry is more than just poetry, it is gorgeous heart opening time like no other.
— xo Wini
Open to all seekers, meditators, tender-hearted souls, poets, writers, revolutionaries, and light workers.
Please join me and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
A One-Day Retreat at Valley Lo Club in Glenview, IL
Saturday September 27
9 am-3 pm (lunch included)
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator who co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process.
Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage.
Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In 2024, she became poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day, sharing them on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils.
One-word mantra: Adjust.
Join Us! Let's Bloom Beauty Together. September 27.
Join Us! Let's Bloom Beauty Together. September 27.
“Like so many, I turn regularly to the work of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer when I need to believe again that the world is still a kind and welcoming place, alive with compassion and full of singing even in the darkest of times. ”