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I have a big month ahead. Please consider joining me for any of these events and engagements in October. IN PERSON: Tell the Truth: About Wonderment, Opening and Belonging – Word Woman Wisdom & Wonderment: A Wise Effort Workshop for Writers and Wonderers – Word Woman Words, Wine & Wonderment …

Join Elena Brower and Rosemerry as they go back and forth reading poems from Rosemerry’s new book The Wonderment. Belly laughs, tears, stories and a peek at Rosemerry’s older book, Even Now, looking at the artwork by Jill Sabella that inspired the poems. WATCH: Elena Brower | Substack  < click

What if poetry could help us live with grief rather than trying to get over it? In our deeply moving conversation, on this podcast, I explore with Reverent Mother Annalouiza Armendariz and Reverend Wakil David Matthews: • How poetry can help us process grief and express feelings that are difficult …

What is the difference between devotion and ambition? This is one of the themes I discuss with podcast host Charlyn Reihman. We talk about the quiet but radical difference between striving to get somewhere and being so in love with the world that you want to show up completely right …

The first review for my new book is in. It’s from The Poetry Shop, an online store that sells, you guessed it, only poetry books! It’s a review of the book, plus an interview with me in which I talk about, among other things, the books that shaped me as a poet, …

I totally loved my interview with Elizabeth Mintun on The Calming Ground Podcast. I read poems from my new book, The Wonderment, and talk about how a writing practice can help us meet our most difficult–and most incredible–moments in life, the disorienting treasure of losing our identities, how to organize a poetry …

I am so excited to share this book with you!! “Rosemerry’s words help me feel the radical amazement of life—something I cherish and so often forget. These poems arise from a deep intimacy with the mystery we are part of; they nourish the heart and spirit.” — Tara Brach, author …

How do we make it through this time of antagonism, war, heartache, injustice? Thank you to One Earth Sangha for sharing this poem of mine–a plea, of sorts. This poem is a sneak preview of my new book, coming out Sept. 8, The Wonderment, available now for presale anywhere you buy …

Coming in August — I get to be in conversation with a poet inspiration of mine, Maya Stein! We will share poems and an informal dialogue around our theme “Welcoming the Nighthawks” (borrowed from a line in my poem, In Crepuscular Light: “These warm summer nights / I take in …

Parker J. Palmer wrote in his fabulous blog “Living the Questions” last week, “The first act of citizenship is to incline our hearts again and again toward love, truth and justice, saying no to all that stands against them. Every day in every way, the choice is in our hands.” …