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Thanks to Reformed Journal for printing this poem on the prayers that find us when we forget how to pray. Printed on June 29, 2021. How to Meet This Difficult Day   Today the prayer is words I can’t yet find, words that flit away like spring juncos, like chickadees. …

Thank you to Reformed Journal who, on June 29, 2021, published this poem on the power of words. Suggestion for a Day And if today we speak all, let us speak in golden leaf. Let’s converse in low clear stream, whisper in rose-hip pink. And if we speak at all today, …

How might poetry help us meet the moment–help us be better parents, help us grieve losses from the pandemic and help us move forward now? Rosemerry joins Pat Jones, host of  The Whole Mother Show, and Glenn Steckler, editor of Stories from the Age of Covid, in an hour-long discussion …

After I read an article about an Italian sculptor selling an “immaterial sculpture” for $18,300, I wrote this poem about the sale, but even more so, about the value of nothing. It was featured on Rattle in the “Poet’s Respond” series on June 13, 2021. THE PRICE OF NOTHING What …

In this hour-long conversation with Anne Marie Vivienne on her fabulous podcast Breakfast Poetry, I share some of the poems that have changed the way I see the world and myself in it. We explore the power of believing in our own worth and our own beauty, that we are …

I love this new lit mag for Colorado poets. Congratulations, Twenty Bellows! I’m delighted to have a poem in it April 2021.  “Finding My Calling” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer with a line from “After the Japanese” by Jack Granath   A warm March day and the blue sky slips itself …

In late April 2021, Northshire Bookstore hosted a poetry evening to celebrate HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD: POEMS OF GRATITUDE AND HOPE edited by James Crews. The contributors in this special virtual event are James, Jane Hirshfield, Danusha Lameris, January Gill O’Neil, and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

Last week, my friend Ulli wrote me to say that a poem of mine was featured in this dharma talk by Diana Clark. It was wonderful to listen for half an hour as Clark wove a powerful teaching about fear into reading a poem of mine about fear being like …

What do stilettos, electrons, onions, hawks and the tortoise and the hare have in common? They’re all in poems that came out today in the amazing ONE ART: A journal of poetry: poems about wonder, competition, patience, resistance and, of course, love. I love this journal and I’m so grateful …

The pandemic changed so much—how we greet each other, how we meet each other, how we work, how we play, how we move. There were devastating losses of loved ones. Life-changing losses of careers, homes. And there were, for each of us, thousands of smaller losses—missed celebrations, vacations, events, goals, …