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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 …

How can poetry help us fall in love with the world? And how might falling in love with the world save the world? That was a major theme of our conversation and poems on the October 12, 2020 edition of Stubborn Praise: An evening celebrating here and now through poetry. …

I’d like to think it might go this way … and wish that I could live this way every day. Thanks to Braided Way for reprinting this poem from Hush.

On September 23, 2020, PBS News Hour ran my poem, “In the Steps of RBG” as part of the celebration of the Supreme Court Justice’s life and legacy. I am so grateful for all the work she did, for all the ways she helped create equality, and for all the …

I was somewhat surprised how moved I was by the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg–what an amazing gift she gave us with her work with the ACLU and her dedication to creating equal rights for women in the Constitution. And how powerfully she changed the world–with patience, …

“Immediate, photo-quick irresistible, the work of a pro with a sharp eye,” writes Bill Ruehlmann about Hush in the Virginia Pilot, in this lovely review of Rosemerry’s newest book.