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    Video Poem for Colorado West Land Trust

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com January 30, 2023

    I was one of many poets who contributed to a beautiful book, Writing the Land: Currents, giving voice to …

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    An Open Thank You Letter

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com January 5, 2023

    Sometimes the kindness of others changes everything we know about the world, about humanity. This poem, published on January …

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    Video: Falling in Love with the World

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com December 12, 2022

    How do we fall in love the world, even when it feels difficult? In this 20-minute poetry reading, followed …

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    Video: Exploring poetic ways to meet a day

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com December 7, 2022

    “Mom,” says my teenage daughter, “real life is not poetic.” That was the prompt for me to create a …

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    Free Broadside: Apricity

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com December 7, 2022

    Thank you to the amazing Daiva Chesonis who designed this broadside for my recent feature on Bardic Trails. (Apricity …

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    “The Prayers” published in Vox Populi

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com November 27, 2022

    How have your prayers changed your life? I am very aware of two that have touched everything–and that’s what …

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    Interview with Raghu Markus on Mind Rolling

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com November 19, 2022

    Speaking about silence? A paradox, of course, but a joyful exploration. I had the chance to join Raghu Markus …

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    Grief & Gratefulness Reading for Stuart’s Opera House

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com November 17, 2022

    I learned more about my own poems by watching ASL interpreter Joe Moore bring them into their face & …

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    Living in Harmony at the Intersection of Opposition: an hour-long interview

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com October 28, 2022

    How do we find harmony in such a polarized world? I am so grateful to Naomi Horii for inviting …

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    Tripping on Memories

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com October 21, 2022

    For me, part of meeting grief has been the practice of welcoming memories. I explore that in this poem, …

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Recent Posts

  • Just Announced: Rosemerry will Keynote at the National Federation of State Poetry Societies 65th Annual Convention

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  • Sharing Our Humanness March 11, 2026
        with thanks to James Crews  My friend James calls it the rough blessing,the blessing that rubs, that chafes,that scrapes. Perhaps I wanted blessingsto only feel good, to be gentle. But the word itselfcomes from the practice of sprinkling bloodon an altar. Why should I be surprised whenthe blood for the rite is my own? […]

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