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Rosemerry invites you to sign up for this retreat during the early bird rate period. Freedom in Restraint: Writing into Less as More Courage & Renewal facilitator Marcia Eames-Sheavly and poet-teacher-storyteller Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will co-lead this unique online mini-retreat experience. This retreat will be grounded in the Courage & …

We are so connected–through our griefs, through our conversations, through the way we meet the world–these two poems, published today in the wonderful Vox Populi, explore the ways in which we are connected to all that is. Read the two poems in Vox Populi  (click)

What a thrill to perform with three heart heroes of mine — Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem and poetry performer extraordinaire Glen Velez, frame drummer who has won 4 Grammys and has traveled the world making music Noah Hoffeld, cellist who plays with Krishna Das and is …

“What I did not know—until I did—was how a relationship can continue to grow, to teach us, to inspire us even when a person is no longer physically present. In this episode of the Find Your Center, Find Your Feet podcast, I talk with my friend Marcella about tending relationships …

TWO POEMS: A poem on silence–what if we really listened to each other, America? And another on the sweet, primal sounds people make … I am so grateful to the wonderful Vox Populi for sharing these two poems and to Michael Simms for pairing them so beautifully–I love how the pairing becomes …

I am so grateful to have poems included in The World Prayer Project, a resource of both historic and contemporary prayers being gathered from all spiritual traditions around the world into a unified internet-based archive for the purpose of inspiration, study and cross-cultural appreciation. Other voices included are Dr. Maya Angelou, Thich …

It was incredible to be in conversation with two of my heart heroes, singer Carrie Newcomer and author, educator and activist Parker J Palmer, and oh, such a conversation! I love The Growing Edge podcast, filled with humor and sorrow and outrage and openness. We talk about the role of …

What should you do if an alligator chases you? What is your current hyperfixation? How can looking out the window save your life? And what do you do when someone compliments you on your costume? These are the themes of the four poems that came out in ONE ART: a …

Join me in a warm, open-hearted conversation with Swami Padmanabha on The Free Radical Podcast. Together, we wander through questions of how to live and create in the face of the unknown—how to listen more deeply, to trust what unfolds, and to meet life with a courageous, open heart. This …

Perhaps you, too, are struggling with how to still fall in love with the world even when you are so, so, so angry about what’s happening? Thank you so much to Michael Simms and Vox Populi, one of my favorite online journals, for sharing my poems “In Broad Daylight” and “After I Fell …