Sorrom: How Writing Helps Us Show Up in Difficult Times

Sorrom: n. a paradoxical praise for beauty, love, strength and connection that can only emerge as we wrestle with devastation, grief and the worries and pains of daily living;
a positive side-effect of surrender and trust in life and death

from sorrow + om (from Hindu religions and Buddhism), originally indicating assent or agreement, pronounced “sahr-om”

Sometimes, in our most desperate moments, we find an impossible invitation—the invitation to praise. How can this be? How, in our most desperate moments, can we celebrate some aspect of life? And how, is it possible (?), can we celebrate the desperation itself? In this two-and-a-half hour playshop, join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer as we talk about the paradoxes we live into through creative practice. We’ll read poems that do the impossible—find praise in the midst of suffering—and converse about them, leap into our own writing, talk about process, and have time for optional sharing.

Join me for this online Master Class hosted by Amherst Writers & Artists.  Purchase tickets here.