Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
In Beauty and in Sorrow:
Writing Poems as a Tool for Meeting the All of It
In Beauty and in Sorrow:
Writing Poems 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 helps weave a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice. More a playshop than a workshop.
All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome.
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.
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 Valley Lo Club in Glenview, IL
Saturday September 27
9am-3pm (lunch included)
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