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The Unfolding is now available as an e-book. Look for my 2025 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist book of poems via libraries, apps, retailers and subscription services. ABOUT: In The Unfolding, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer startles us with the wonder, beauty, and sacred connection that blossom out of living wholeheartedly. Here …

I completely enjoyed this open-hearted conversation with Evonne Ellis about how we kill wonder—and how we nourish it, how to get out of our way in our creative practice, writing as a tool for self-witnessing and self-compassion, the work of a poet laureate, writing as a way to align ourselves …

This thrills me–Better Magazine has my book The Unfolding as their top title for books that “offer guidance, insight, and reassurance for readers navigating a complicated world.” That’s so the spirit in which I wrote these poems. Thank you so much to the staff and retreat leaders of Siena Retreat Center who …

An intimate conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on grief, love and the art of saying yes to life as it is. What does it mean to stay open to life when the heart has broken? In this conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, we step into the sacred terrain …

Tell Me Something True What poem is inspiring me these days? I have long loved “The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass, and in this fabulous podcast, Living Poetry, along with host Susan Cunningham I read the poem and we talk about why I am so inspired by it. We also look at …

Join me on VOICE RISING with Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad for a luminous, no-holds-barred conversation celebrating the release of my brand-new spoken word album, RISKING LOVE. What if poetry could seduce us back into tenderness? What if sound, silence, and language became the bridge between heartbreak and hope? Flirty. Smart. …

On July 9, 2025, Rosemerry joined the Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County for their Soul Care Speaker Series. After losing a family member or loved one, grief can touch every part of our lives. Loss changes us. It also becomes a gateway for a growing fluency with love and paradox. …

What an incredible time I had conversing with two amazing humans, Shawn Parell and David Keplinger, about poetry as a way to show up in the world, how life lives us (instead of the other way around), the gift of reframing our stories (and reframing and reframing), a poem that …

Join me with the luminous Tei Taiyarï on his podcast, Wild Heart Revival, in a conversation about creative practice, opening the heart despite heartache, poetry and so much more. I love this podcast and the wonder, wisdom and generosity Tei brings to every episode. We talk about poetry as a …

Join me on Soul Stream’s “Living from the Heart” podcast for “contemplative practices, spiritual growth and authentic living,” where I had fun talking with host Rod Janz about how a daily poetry practice has changed everything, the influence of the natural world on my work, how my new book is a …