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In this special evening of Stubborn Praise: Celebrating the here and now through poetry, co hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews feature Young People’s Poet Laureate and widely beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, author of “Cast Away,” “Everything Comes Next,” “Fuel,” and many other award-winning poetry books. After the …

What the world needs now is more Dolly–more generosity, more creativity, more attention given to kids, more play, more serious work. To honor the singer & philanthropist’s 75th birthday, Limp Wrist magazine hosted a special issue of poems celebrating Dolly–her lyrics, her looks, her acts, her Dolly-ness, including one I …

In the most recent issue of Buddhist Poetry Review Volume 3 Issue 4, I have these three poems published, alongside many other wonderful poets and poems. After After the anger dries up and falls away like an old dried husk, it might be you feel like laughing— at yourself it …

Poeming into the New Year: A poetry thoughtshop on transformation and honoring the moment The start of a new year is a natural chance to recalibrate—to get curious and let everything come into question. What a time to be amazed and astonished, to open ourselves to transformation. Poetry, both reading …

In this December 2020 evening of Stubborn Praise, James Crews and I invited Laura Foley to share poems. After, the three of us talked about how worry does or doesn’t help creative process, how writing poems can help us “soften toward pain,” and so much more.

It was so fun conversing with Kara Johnstad on Om Times Radio in her wonderful show Voice Rising. She asked such insightful questions about how poetry might help us meet the world (and ourselves), and I loved the wide-angled lens she uses. We read poems from my latest book, Hush, …

I so enjoyed this hour of conversing with my good friend, James Navé. Because he is also a poet and teacher and wrangler of poets, he has such a wonderful base for asking questions. We begin by discussing control … and how it does and doesn’t play a part in …

What a joy to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year by ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry. I love this online journal, and it’s a thrill to be included with five other amazing poets. You can read them all here. In Times of Great Darkness I want to …

Rosemerry’s poem, “Setting” was featured on Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30-minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Setting In every conversation there is a table made of listening. Sometimes the tables are beautiful, solid, clean—the …

Though our bodies have sometimes felt like sources of weakness during this pandemic, they are yet the temple of the soul. In this poem, published today in Poetry and COVID, I explore just that.   Fleeting There is no need for temples … Our own brain, our own heart is …