In Beauty and In Sorrow: Writing Poems as a Tool for Meeting the All of It

I’m so looking forward to this upcoming in-person gathering in Chicago. This playshop is a chance to explore how poetry can help us meet life in all its beauty and sorrow—with honesty, tenderness, and a little bit of wonder. I’d love to write, listen, and discover alongside you.

More information about the event and tickets available below:

Every experience in life is worthy of our careful attention—and poetry provides a way to meet each experience with wonder, and a willingness to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the story of our world.

Though a poem can’t change the facts, it can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything.

Together we’ll read poems, converse about them, use them as launching points for our own writing, and talk about process. We’ll explore playing with metaphors and paradox, letting curiosity lead us past the edge of what we think we know into new possibilities for framing a moment. 

We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer weaves a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice, to listen into your true heart-voice. More a playshop than a workshop.

All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome. No poetry experience needed, just an open tender heart!

More information about the event here.

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