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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, …

Join co-hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews in an afternoon of poetry that helps us meet the here and now with special guest Mark Nepo. This program was originally recorded May 10, 2021 The program will begin with a few poems by each of the hosts, then a reading …

What a joy to join the Ram Dass Be Here Now Network podcast! My host, Raghu Markus, was a wonderful interviewer, and I loved hearing him read my poems. In his weekly podcast, Mindrolling, we talk about how the daily writing went from poetic practice toward spiritual practice–and so much …

How do we meet the moment as vulnerably, openly, and intimately as possible? One pathway is through poetry — reading, writing and conversing about it. On March 25, 2021, poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shared poems and stories about how a daily writing practice can become an open invitation to explore …

I LOVE the ONE ART poetry journal, and I’m delighted to have two new poems published there on March 29, 2021–a small light and small hope. Ode to the Bic Lighter My first lighter I found in a parking lot— a smooth red plastic tube that fit in my pocket. …

Join Rosemerry, Billy Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jack Ridl, Alison Luterman, David Lee, Bil Lepp and many more as they explore the many pathways to the heart through poetry, story, essay and music in this online presentation of Power of Poetry, hosted by Alan Cohen.

Join Rosemerry, Jack Ridl, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bass, Alison Luterman, David Lee, Jon D. Lee, Valencia Robin, and many many more as they explore what it is to be alive. Music, story, poetry, and communion in this powerful online presentation for Power of Poetry, hosted by Alan Cohen.

Isn’t it wonderful when we meet a new friend? And it changes EVERYTHING about how we see the world? And infuses our faith in humanity? Yeah. That’s the subject of this poem, “Darn Lucky,” published on Gratefulness.org.   Darn Lucky It happens, you know—the day opens itself like a tulip …