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I so enjoyed my hour-long conversation with the luminous Kara Johnstad on her show Voice Rising–she’s one of my favorite interviewers. We spoke about poetry, Rilke, embracing the full spectrum of experience, life and death and light and dark and imagination and shadow and inspiration and more … plus we …

Since 2019, Christie Aschwanden and I have been collaborating to create a podcast on creative process–Emerging Form. What a fabulous passion project–something we’ve done for love and curiosity, and oh my goodness, how many wonderful conversations we’ve had with writers, poets, scientists, musicians, comedians, actors, philosophers, athletes, artists, circus performers …

I feel so crazy lucky that Jennifer Kent of University of Nevada–Reno created this beautiful 10-minute video as part of the Lake Tahoe speaker series. Shot at the Lake Tahoe campus in September 2023, it features me reading three poems–“For When People Ask,” “Simple Tools” and “Untamed”–and also conversing about …

I’ve long been drawn to the Judd’s Hill Poetry contest, which caught my eye back in 2016 because the prize is a double magnum of cab! And the contest is for poems written about wine. This year, I won! With a poem about mom’s wine glasses … You can read …

The One You Feed podcast put together this special episode to pay tribute to the late poet, Mary Oliver.  Special guests James Crews, Danusha Lameris, Ross Gay, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Ginny Gay each read one of their favorite Mary Oliver poems and share why the poem is meaningful to …

It was heaven–being live and reading and laughing and crying with James Crews an Laura Foley. James Crews reads from his recent book, The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal; Laura Foley reads from It’s This; and Rosemerry Wahtola Trimmer reads from All the Honey; with Q&A …

What a joy to be in person with my friend James Crews, a poet and anthologer I admire so deeply. Here’s the recording of our reading at the wonderful Battenkill Books in upstate New York in late September, 2023. Join us in big time as I read from All the …

It’s an honor, a joy, to see a poem recast in the hands of an artist. What a thrill to see what Jim Cokas has done with my poem, “In Crepuscular Light,” offering such movement and color and energy to this letterpress print–only 50 made. It was a part of …

What a joy to go deeply into the creation of a poem–I just love the way Ken Salzmann wrote about our interview in his blog, “How to Grow a Poem.” We talked about poetry in general, but very specifically we spoke about what went into writing “For When People Ask”–the …

Last year, on the anniversary of my son’s death, I wrote a poem for my daughter, “The One Who Thrives.” It celebrates all the ways she has learned to show up in times when it has been very, very hard. I first shared this video on the eve of her …