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What should you do if an alligator chases you? What is your current hyperfixation? How can looking out the window save your life? And what do you do when someone compliments you on your costume? These are the themes of the four poems that came out in ONE ART: a …

Join me in a warm, open-hearted conversation with Swami Padmanabha on The Free Radical Podcast. Together, we wander through questions of how to live and create in the face of the unknown—how to listen more deeply, to trust what unfolds, and to meet life with a courageous, open heart. This …

Perhaps you, too, are struggling with how to still fall in love with the world even when you are so, so, so angry about what’s happening? Thank you so much to Michael Simms and Vox Populi, one of my favorite online journals, for sharing my poems “In Broad Daylight” and “After I Fell …

Get ready to be part of something extraordinary…The National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) 65th Annual Convention and BlackBerry Peach SLAM are events like no other. Be part of it all in Overland Park, Kansas this July 23-27, 2026!  This year our Keynote Speaker be Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. For her keynote, Rosemerry will present: …

How do we meet life and each other with deep respect and deep care? I am always grateful for the conversations on Turning Toward Life between Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn. This in this episode they use one of my poems, “In Case You Don’t Know Already,” one I wrote …

Join me and cultural historian Kayleen Asbo for an inspiring three-week series that weaves together art and poetry as prompts for your own creative writing exploration. Rilke was a student of art history, and no art affected him more powerfully than the sculptures of Rodin. After authoring a monograph on …

In this episode, I join host Lisa Keefauver for a heartfelt conversation exploring the complexities of grief, the power of poetry, and the importance of self-compassion in the grieving process. We dive deep into the role of metaphor as a way to metabolize grief, and how writing can serve as …

Please join me for a very special conversation with Ned Buskirk on You’re Going to Die: The Podcast. I read some poems and we talked about: how loss creates community how a writing practice helps us show up shifting our creative practice from wanting to be good to be true …

The Unfolding is now available as an e-book. Look for my 2025 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist book of poems via libraries, apps, retailers and subscription services. ABOUT: In The Unfolding, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer startles us with the wonder, beauty, and sacred connection that blossom out of living wholeheartedly. Here …

I completely enjoyed this open-hearted conversation with Evonne Ellis about how we kill wonder—and how we nourish it, how to get out of our way in our creative practice, writing as a tool for self-witnessing and self-compassion, the work of a poet laureate, writing as a way to align ourselves …