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What if we assume belonging? How are we held by the world? Those questions are at the heart of this poem published today on the wonderful Vox Populi, which I read every day. Every day I am grateful for this online journal, and it is such an honor to be …

I can’t overstate how much I LOVED doing this interview with Charles Feltman and Ila Edgar. Aiming to help leaders, this podcast is dedicated to “helping you become intentional about cultivating strong trust with everyone important in your life: the people and teams you lead and work with, and your …

I love talking poetry–especially with someone as passionate and intelligent as Clair Thom with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. In this hour-long interview we converse about authenticity, community, staying in the mystery, the power of metaphor, and my ideas for my next collection. I also read six poems from my …

I love the Peaceful Exit podcast with host Sarah Cavanaugh–thoughtful, generous, provocative conversations about our mortality. In this episode, she and I speak about what a “peaceful exit” might look like, and how we might continue to show up even when a death is anything but peaceful. We talk about …

How does love continue to grow after loss? I am so grateful for Global Heart for sharing this interview about devastation after loss, about how we speak about grief with others, about writing as a way to meet loss, and the yin and yang energies of writing. Plus four poems …

Juliana Hay is an amazing human and I was so grateful to be on her podcast to talk about how writing can help us meet difficult times. You can watch our conversation at the link above, or listen on Apple Podcasts here.

I was honored to spend time with Brian Draper in this beautiful, open-hearted interview in which I was asked questions I’ve never been asked. Brian is releasing our talk as part of a Lenten practice, which you can learn more about here. Click above to watch our interview, or listen …

In this 20-minute guest-hosted episode of The Trauma Therapist, Sarah Peyton, a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, interviews Rosemerry about poetry, trauma, and how poems can helps us live through difficult experiences—by helping us stay open, to re-enter moments that are difficult to find language for, to feel accompanied in …

One of the most honest, provocative interviews I have ever had was done live in December with Mitzi Rapkin of First Draft: A dialogue on writing. You can listen to the podcast here or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Or, watch the video above, which includes questions from the audience …

One of the great joys in life is being taken by the metaphoric hand into the metaphoric grove with Philip Carr-Gomm and exploring the intersections of psychology, spirituality and earth wisdom. In this episode of “Tea with a Druid,” Philip and I converse about poems, grief, love, ripening, opening, practice, …