Fourth Annual Fall Writing Program at Kripalu – Imagine New Worlds: Hope, Transformation, and Exploration
I’m honored to be part of the Fourth Annual Fall Writing Program at Kripalu—a vibrant online gathering of writers, poets, storytellers, and seekers exploring how words can shape new worlds.
Date: October 22, 2025
You can book your tickets by visiting Kripalu
More details below:
Risk & Play: Flirting with the Unknown
Most writing advice is meant to be dismantled, and in this playshop, we take on the adage “Write what you know.” Really? If we are to serve the writing, we must let it know more than we do. Join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in letting curiosity and uncertainty drive our writing into fresh, resonant new regions—places we couldn’t possibly predict. That’s right. Writing for pleasure. Finding rules and breaking them. Play is a secret weapon for meeting failure, vulnerability, uncertainty and humility. Play helps us fall in love with the world, and with words, too. We’ll read poems that make us laugh, shake our heads, open our hearts and show up, and then in that vein, we’ll write. Gravity, of course, is also invited. There’s always a dark underbelly. Let’s tickle it.
Takeaways:
Participants will leave with:
- ideas for how to bring playfulness into our writing practice,
- an appreciation for paradox and how to explore it through poetry,
- two poems (or seeds for poems) from our in-class writing times,
- more writing invitations to try on your own,
- suggestions for how to write past what you know into the unknown,
- a sense of how creative practice might go beyond the page and into daily life.
Come for a spark. Stay for the transformation.
Your words are needed here. Your voice is part of the new world we are dreaming.