Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry: Session 3
Rosemerry will be doing a poetry reading and leading a workshop during this summit.
Keynote Speakers: John Fox, PPM ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ~ Amanda Johnston
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VENUE: Online
DATES/TIMES:
SESSION 1: Friday, April 24, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm (MT)
SESSION 2: Saturday, April 25, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm (MT)
SESSION 3: Sunday, April 26, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm (MT)
COST:
$50 Friday, $100 Saturday, $100 Sunday, or $250 admission to Summit 2026 April-December programs and 30-day access to recordings. Early Bird Pricing $225 for all three days, admission to monthly Summit 2026 programming, and 30 days access to recordings. To request financial assistance for this poetic medicine event please complete this form.
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Join The Institute for Poetic Medicine, Poetry as a Tool for Wellness, and other community partners as we gather to practice connection, hope, resilience, and agency through poetry.
The 2026 Poetic Medicine Summit will offer keynote speakers and facilitated workshops where participants will hear their own and others’ inner wisdom, truth and beauty, and celebrate our common humanity. Our initial event during April will feature keynote speakers include IPM founder, John Fox, PPM; Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Poet Laureate of Southwestern Colorado; and Amanda Johnston, 61st Poet Laureate of Texas.
- Additional speakers and workshops to be announced.
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 61st Texas Poet Laureate. Born in East St. Louis, IL, and raised in Austin, TX, she began writing poetry while living in Kentucky. Her writing is published widely, and she has presented at numerous literary conferences and events. She is a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem Foundation, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founder of Torch Literary Arts.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate in 2019. Since 2024, she’s been poet laureate for Evermore. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process, host of The Poetic Path—a daily program on the Ritual app, cofounder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years and co-hosted Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club for another ten years.
John Fox, PPM – Practitioner of Poetic Medicine,is a poet, author, educator, and CEO of The Institute for Poetic Medicine (IPM), a nonprofit he founded in 2005. IPM brings poetic medicine programs and training to communities throughout the US and internationally.