The Blessing and the Wound: An Online Poetry Retreat (Day 2)

In a time of deep loss, uncertainty, and bewilderment, how do we find refuge in writing and the potent act of creativity? How do we allow our blessings and wounds both to become our teachers? Each week, James and Rosemerry will engage in sacred conversation, sharing poetry and insights, and then inviting participants each session to engage in writing and ask questions of their own or share about their process.

Dates: Tuesday June 23 & Tuesday June 30th

Time: Noon-2:00pm ET | 10am-Noon MT | 9am -11am PT

Format: Zoom

* EACH SESSION WILL ALSO BE RECORDED AND SHARED

REGISTRATION & DETAILS (click)

 

James Crews lives on forty rocky acres in Southern Vermont, on the unceded lands of the Abenaki people, with his husband Brad Peacock, with whom he co-edited Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness & Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community & Friends (Storey Publishing/Hachette). Crews is editor of the bestselling anthologies How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, and The Wonder of Small Things, and author of several collections of poems, including Unlocking the Heart, Turning Toward Grief and Breathing Room. He also hosts a writing community called The Monthly Pause via Zoom each month. To sign up for free weekly poems and for more info, visit: jamescrews.net.

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, Washington Post’s Book Club, 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. www.wordwoman.com