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Rosemerry’s new book, Naked for Tea, was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award and is now available! Click here to purchase and listen to new audio recordings from the book.

How exciting! Thank you Colorado Center for the Book! Governor Jared Polis has chosen Denver poet, playwright and co founder of Cafe Cultura Bobby LeFebre as Colorado’s new poet laureate, following Joseph Hutchinson‘s four years in the position. And I got to be a finalist, along with the amazing Wendy Videlock and Aaron …

What a joy to hear amazing poet Erika Gordon reading my poems and talking about my work in “Lyric Essentials” on Sundress.org. Made me cry.

This sonnet, published in Gratefulness.org, explores some miracles in ordinary clothes. Gratefulness.org

A couple years ago composer Paul Fowler and I collaborated on this piece that was performed by one of our country’s best acapella groups, The Crossing. You can listen to it above.

Emerging Form is a weekly podcast about the creative process. Join me and my co-host, the New York Times bestselling science writer Christie Aschwanden as we discuss creativity, usually over a glass of wine. Themes for season one include quitting, getting started, collaboration and existential despair. Guests for season one …

Send My Roots Rain is an heart-opening collection for people who are grieving, filled with poetry and prompts for reflection. Featuring Ellen Bass, Kim Addonizio, Rilke, Louise Gluck, Jane Kenyon, Jane Hirshfield, Stephen Dunn, Gregory Orr, Lucille Clifton, and me! Description Langley offers comfort and encouragement to those struggling with …

I have a poem featured in Coffee Poems, a fabulous new collection about America’s favorite drink. Also featuring Dorianne Laux, Ellen Bass, Joseph Millar, Alicia Ostriker. Description Coffee Poems contains 167 richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, …

A playshop that leaps between details and dreams Something to think about: Part of the magic of the poem is that it goes beneath the story. It is more than a retelling of what happened, though it is that, too. I think that the best poems will allow us to …

Read: Wild Geese Wild Geese –Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, …