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Peaceful ExitParadox and Poetry with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerRosemerry Wahtola Trommer knows grief. Her dad and son died in the same year. Like her latest book, The Unfolding, if this interview were music, it would be in the key of grief. Rosemerry shares how her daily writing practice helped her navigate the days and weeks following her son's death. She also explains how we can hold opposite things that may both be true. We can let go of the tired stories we tell ourselves and find new metaphors that better serve us. You can find Rosemerry's work and learn more about her...2025-04-2935 min
The Trauma TherapistGuest Host: Sarah Peyton interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The Trauma-Healing Power of PoetrySarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around...2025-03-2520 min
I Care About YouRosemerry Wahtola Trommer on Writing Through LossThis week on the I Care About You podcast, host Juliana Jay, author of Reasons to Live: An Interactive Guide to Healing and Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts and How to Help Others Survive, welcomes the incredible Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer—poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and poet laureate of Evermore. Her work has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS NewsHour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, The Washington Post’s Book Club, and even the stage of Carnegie Hall. Her newest book, The Unfolding, is a powerful exploration of grief, resilience, and love. In this episode, Rosemerry shar...2025-03-201h 15The Trauma TherapistGuest Host: Sarah Peyton interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The Trauma-Healing Power of PoetrySarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around...2025-03-0420 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingRosemerry Wahtola TrommerRosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curatedversion (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available withthe Ritual app. Her poetry collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was afinalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey...2025-02-031h 14
Embodiment Matters PodcastOpen Me: A Conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerWe are so excited to share this podcast with the amazing poet and human, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. As Erin mentions in the intro, you might want to have some tissues handy, as we dive right into the deep end, and the conversation is filled with tenderness and beauty. In our conversation, Rosemerry reads some of her gorgeous poems, and we move through many rich themes including grief and gratitude, ways to be with someone who is grieving, holding paradox and the stretch of the human heart, and being opened by life. The conversation has...2025-01-101h 13
Balanced Mind with Julie PotikerWhat You Need - Guided MeditationIn this guided meditation, led by Julie Potiker you will be focusing on your gifts and what it is you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "At the Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer."At The Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerNow when I walk through the marketI think of how someone else herebeside the stir-fry cart and the tie-dye tenthas just lost a belovedand is hiding tears behind sunglasses.Not knowing...2024-12-2221 min
Voice RisingUnfolding Inside of Grief and Praise with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerAir Date - 16 December 2024OMTimes Radio is honored to welcome poet, teacher, and workshop facilitator Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to the VOICE RISING SHOW. Rosemerry will join host Kara Johnstad for a heartfelt and profound conversation about her latest poetry collection, The Unfolding.In The Unfolding, Rosemerry delves into the paradox of grief as a form of praise, capturing the sacred connection that blossoms from living wholeheartedly, even in the face of profound loss. Written after the deaths of her son and father, these poems embody both sorrow and celebration—heartbreaking yet uplifting, somber yet playful, even so...2024-12-1756 minBalanced Mind with Julie PotikerWhat Do I Need to Hear - Guided MeditationRight now, in this moment, what is it you need to hear? Julie Potiker helps you focus on that question through this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Reciting Poems to Each Other in a Difficult Time", by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerReciting Poems to Each Other in a Difficult Time, by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerIt might have looked as if we stayedin our respective squares—nine separate rooms made of pixels—but for an hour the poem...2024-12-0921 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastBonus: I Come to You With No Need to Be Fixed
We hit our first technical interruption in over seven years this week, when an operating-system update froze Lizzie's computer. We'll be back on track next week, but in the meantime here's a repeat of our most popular episode from back in 2021, which draws on the work of our cherished friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
We're conditioned to think of ourselves and other people as in need of fixing, and it makes it so difficult for us to open to one another's beauty and mystery. So what if we could cultivate eyes and hearts of wonder at the luminescent half-moon...2024-11-2632 minBalanced Mind with Julie PotikerOpen Heart MeditationOpen your heart to compassion through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "So I Can't Save the World", by —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer"So I Can't Save the World", by —Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerSo I can’t save the world—can’t save even myself,can’t wrap my arms aroundevery frightened child, can’tfoster peace among nations,can’t bring love to all whofeel...2024-11-2320 min
Twice 5 Miles RadioSelf-Compassion and the Poetic Heart with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerWelcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé. This week, we’re joined for a fourth time by poet, teacher, and podcaster Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a devoted practitioner of daily poetry for nearly two decades.
Together, we explore what it means to Rosemerry to “live poetry.” She speaks to the soul-deepening practice of poetry as a way of experiencing life in its fullness—a delicate dance of grief, joy, curiosity, and acceptance.
We discuss her philosophy on self-compassion, how poetry tunes us into the subtleties of our bodies, and why even moments of struggle or uncertainty can be creative...2024-11-1557 min
GRIEF AND LIGHTEmbracing what is with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerIn this heartfelt conversation, award-winning poet and author, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, shares her journey of navigating grief after the sudden loss of her son, Finn, in 2021, followed by the loss of her father. Through poetry and reflection, she explores the themes of grief, surrender, love, the natural world, and the transformative power of writing. The episode delves into the nuances of grief, and the ways in which creativity can serve as a sacred anchoring practice as we learn to meet what is with curiosity, and how to carry our person's "love light" after loss.***...2024-11-121h 02
Mindrolling with Raghu MarkusEp. 562 – Unfolding Our Grief with Poet Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerWritten in the key of grief and the melody of praise, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer sits down with Raghu to discuss her newest poetry book, The Unfolding.Enjoy your own copy of The Unfolding to read Rosemerry’s heart-opening poems! Purchase the book HEREThis week, tune into Rosemerry and Raghu’s conversation on: The loss of Rosemerry’s son and fatherLiving through seasons of extreme griefUnderstanding the gift of a poemOppositional feelings experienced at the same time (pain + joy, etc.)Recognizing how desperately we need eachotherThe Grand Quilt, The Medicine of Surrender, and more poems writt...2024-10-0455 min
Be Here Now NetworkEp. 562 - Unfolding Our Grief with Poet Rosemerry TrommerWritten in the key of grief and the melody of praise, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer sits down with Raghu to discuss her newest poetry book, The Unfolding.
This week, tune into Rosemerry and Raghu’s conversation on:
- The loss of Rosemerry’s son and father
- Living through seasons of extreme grief
- Understanding the gift of a poem
- Oppositional feelings experienced at the same time (pain + joy, etc.)
- Recognizing how desperately we need eachother
- The Grand Quilt, The Medicine of Surrender, and more poems written and read by Rosemerry
- Brave prayers and the things that open...2024-10-0455 min
Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: The Courage to Say Yes – A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters. In our...2024-10-021h 02Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: The Courage to Say Yes – A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters. In our...2024-10-021h 02
Tara BrachThe Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters. In our interview we talk about the...2024-10-021h 02
Emerging FormEpisode 121: Rosemerry's New Poetry CollectionThis week, Christie interviews Rosemerry about her new book, The Unfolding, out on October 1st. Do her a big favor and pre-order it now at this link. Rosemerry explains how the poems came together, how she structured the book and why the cover is pink. It’s a wonderful conversation we know you’ll love. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carn...2024-09-1931 min
The Other Side of ThingsThe Other Side of Things (Ep 05) - "All The Honey" with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #poetry #healing00:00 Introduction01:40 Who is Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer?03:10 All The Honey04:20 How did you become a poet? 07:50 What opened your heart as a child?08:19 A poem a day.09:20 "I wrote the first bare line...pure wisdom...pure foolishness"10:40 Poetry and dealing with darkness and her son's death.14:00 Turning Towards What is True. 14:43 It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be true. 16:00 How my daily practice of writing helped me not shut down. 16:34 Finn's amazing light, compassion and how he shined so brightly.21:22 Wrestling with being true - a...2024-08-241h 26
Life ExaminedWild Sorrow: Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on losing her son and finding her way forwardThere may be no greater pain in life than that of losing a child; the gaping hole felt when a young life is abruptly cut short, leaving parents to deal with a void that can be difficult to comprehend, and a journey to make sense of the heartache that follows.
For poet Rosemerry Wahtula Trommer, the pain is palpable and the grief — the kind of grief only a mother can know — remains unwavering . Tragically, her son Finn took his own life just before reaching his 17th birthday. In the wake of this unimaginable tragedy, Trommer found herself irre...2024-07-2853 min
Habits for Your Happily Ever AfterHow Does the Death of a Child Impact Your Marriage?My guest today, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, lives into this question. Her son, Finn, died by suicide two and a half years ago. The pain Rosemerry felt was extreme. Her world crumbled.In this episode:You'll hear about how hurt can disguise loveYou'll learn how to use your love-translatorYou'll understand the importance of being patient with yourself and your spouse when you're in painConnect to Improve Your Relationship CommunicationVisit the show notes here.Please subscribe to my newsletter here. Reach me at 970-210-44802024-03-2157 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastRight-Sized
How do we take up our right size in the world? Not in some fixed, rigid way but as a responsive way of engaging with what is called for in each situation and context?
When we see that in some way ‘too big’ and ‘too small’ are both ways we try to control situations, maybe we can open to the emergence of something more fluid, more adaptive, and more sensitive in us. Something that asks of us to be of service to life, and responds accordingly.
Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspa...2024-03-1729 min
Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa West🌸Wallflower Yin🌸Deepen Your Practice with the Wall | YWM 686In this gentle and nurturing class, we'll explore the profound benefits of Yin Yoga while using the support of the wall to deepen our practice. 🧘♀️
This class combines the best of upper body, chest opening and shoulder releasing yin yoga along with hip opening yin yoga with the wall.
We will begin by releasing your chest and shoulders with your heart meridian and the lung meridian. These yin yoga poses will improve your posture and breathing mechanics and also release your upper back, neck and shoulder tension. 💫
We will move into some legs up the wall and deep hip releases that will re...2024-03-1551 min
Yoga with Melissa🌸Wallflower Yin🌸Deepen Your Practice with the Wall | YWM 686In this gentle and nurturing class, we'll explore the profound benefits of Yin Yoga while using the support of the wall to deepen our practice. 🧘♀️
This class combines the best of upper body, chest opening and shoulder releasing yin yoga along with hip opening yin yoga with the wall.
We will begin by releasing your chest and shoulders with your heart meridian and the lung meridian. These yin yoga poses will improve your posture and breathing mechanics and also release your upper back, neck and shoulder tension. 💫
We will move into some legs up the wall and deep hip releases that will re...2024-03-1551 minYoga with Melissa12 Poses You Should Do Every Day | Yoga with Melissa 684You guys LOVED the first 45 minute Daily Hatha Yoga Routine 12 Poses You Should Do Daily | Yoga with Melissa 479
It has over 46K views, so I made a second one 12 Poses You Should Do Every Day in 30 minutes - Wrist Free YWM 639 and it has over 7K views.
I hear from so many of you that you put these 2 classes into your regular rotation.
So, I decided to create yet another version of daily hatha yoga poses that you should do everyday.
The way I think about yoga has changed a a little bit over the years, and this class reflects t...2024-03-0133 minLiving your Yoga with Dr Melissa West12 Poses You Should Do Every Day | Yoga with Melissa 684You guys LOVED the first 45 minute Daily Hatha Yoga Routine 12 Poses You Should Do Daily | Yoga with Melissa 479
It has over 46K views, so I made a second one 12 Poses You Should Do Every Day in 30 minutes - Wrist Free YWM 639 and it has over 7K views.
I hear from so many of you that you put these 2 classes into your regular rotation.
So, I decided to create yet another version of daily hatha yoga poses that you should do everyday.
The way I think about yoga has changed a a little bit over the years, and this class reflects t...2024-03-0133 min
Fat Joy with Sophia ApostolMassage Therapy For Fat Bodies -- Kristy EleskoKristy Elesko (she/her) wants you to have a great massage. A massage that feels safe, empowered, and like your body’s needs are being met with certainty and accommodation as needed. So, she’s sharing her brilliant tips for how to find a massage therapist who works with all bodies, key questions to ask the clinic receptionist, and how to advocate for your body’s needs.Kristy Elesko is a massage therapist and massage therapy educator in Victoria BC (lands of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples). She has a diverse practice where she treats he...2024-02-201h 01
Little GiftsSaying YES to what is! In conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerIn this extremely heartfelt episode we are joined by the incredible poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Rosemerrys work is such a gift to the world and we were over the moon to have her join us to talk about joy, sorrow, art, inspiration and the magic that can happen when we say YES to what is. You can find more out about Rosemerry at https://www.wordwoman.com/Or find her blog with a poem a day at https://ahundredfallingveils.com/The following poems were written and read by Rosemerry Trommer on this episode: ...2024-02-1956 min
Voice RisingJourney into EndarkenmentAir Date - 08 January 2024Journey into Endarkenment: A Conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerEmbrace the beauty of the dark and discover the transformative power of endarkenment in our upcoming Voice Rising Show! Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad in conversation with American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, as they explore the profound depths of creativity, passion, and revelation through Rosemerry’s new spoken-word album, “Dark Praise.” In a culture that often celebrates only the light, Rosemerry’s journey to embrace darkness has brought forth a rich tapestry of wisdom that promises to inspire your own creative journey.Ros...2024-01-0856 min
Start Your ComebackHappy ThanksgivingI would love to hear from you! Send a text! Join Toni as she gives you an action step for Gratefulness.The link to the Poem, "When People Ask" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and her collection All The Honey. https://www.wordwoman.com/ Shared with grateful permission from the author!Let's create your transition gameplan:Book your discovery callYou can find me at:Website Instagram Facebook2023-11-2304 minLiving your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestEmpowered Beginner Yin Yoga: Full Body Stretch for Vitality | YWM 672This is an Empowered Beginner Yin Yoga class for full-body vitality! In this Yin Yoga class for beiginners, we will explore the transformative power of yin to create bring balanc to the deeper connective tissues of your body.
Yin yoga targets the yin tissues of the body, such as ligaments, bones, and joints. Unlike yang styles that focus on warming and stretching the muscles, yin yoga applies gentle pressure for extended periods, stimulating the deep connective tissues to grow stronger and more flexible.
In this yin yoga class, we will gently pressurize the tissues to strengthen your ligaments nad joints...2023-11-0359 minYoga with MelissaEmpowered Beginner Yin Yoga: Full Body Stretch for Vitality | YWM 672This is an Empowered Beginner Yin Yoga class for full-body vitality! In this Yin Yoga class for beiginners, we will explore the transformative power of yin to create bring balanc to the deeper connective tissues of your body.
Yin yoga targets the yin tissues of the body, such as ligaments, bones, and joints. Unlike yang styles that focus on warming and stretching the muscles, yin yoga applies gentle pressure for extended periods, stimulating the deep connective tissues to grow stronger and more flexible.
In this yin yoga class, we will gently pressurize the tissues to strengthen your ligaments nad joints...2023-11-0359 minYoga with MelissaLegs Up the Wall Yoga for Nervous System Healing | YWM 670In this healing nervous system restorative yoga class we focus on the healing power of support through self-regulation. In this class, we create the conditions for support and nervous system healing with the wall. The wall and the earth together are the foundations that will invite deeper nervous system healing. When we find ourselves fully supported by props, such as the strap and the wall, a co-regulated relationship with ourselves emerges. This class invites you into a nervous system healing protocol that offers an easy step by step process for healing.
Legs Up the Wall Yoga for Nervous System Healing...2023-10-201h 05Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestLegs Up the Wall Yoga for Nervous System Healing | YWM 670In this healing nervous system restorative yoga class we focus on the healing power of support through self-regulation. In this class, we create the conditions for support and nervous system healing with the wall. The wall and the earth together are the foundations that will invite deeper nervous system healing. When we find ourselves fully supported by props, such as the strap and the wall, a co-regulated relationship with ourselves emerges. This class invites you into a nervous system healing protocol that offers an easy step by step process for healing.
Legs Up the Wall Yoga for Nervous System Healing...2023-10-201h 05Yoga with MelissaGentle Hatha Yoga to Soothe Overwhelm & Body Tension | YWM 667This gentle hatha yoga class will support you in dealing with information overload, overstimulation, overwhelm and nervous system regulation. By easing your way back into your body with gentle and grounding yoga practices we can support nervous system dysregulation symptoms like anxiety, energy drain, and releasing intense emotions. Gentle and supportive movements will reduce physical tension and the muscular holding patterns that often accompany nervous system dysregulation. Gentle hatha yoga practices like this support us in self-regulating allowing us to respond to the ongoing stresses of life so that we can increase our capacity to navigate this strongly transitional time.
...2023-09-1650 minLiving your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestGentle Hatha Yoga to Soothe Overwhelm & Body Tension | YWM 667This gentle hatha yoga class will support you in dealing with information overload, overstimulation, overwhelm and nervous system regulation. By easing your way back into your body with gentle and grounding yoga practices we can support nervous system dysregulation symptoms like anxiety, energy drain, and releasing intense emotions. Gentle and supportive movements will reduce physical tension and the muscular holding patterns that often accompany nervous system dysregulation. Gentle hatha yoga practices like this support us in self-regulating allowing us to respond to the ongoing stresses of life so that we can increase our capacity to navigate this strongly transitional time.
...2023-09-1650 min
Fat Joy with Sophia ApostolThe Strongest Woman In The World -- Tamara WalcottTamara Walcott (she/her) knew she ‘wasn’t born big for nothing.’ In only four years, she went from not working out at all to breaking two(!!!) Guinness World Records (check out the video here) and becoming the strongest woman in the world. Tamara shares what it was like growing up fat, how it felt walking into the gym for the first time, and the way she uses her personal growth journey to better support her kids. Plus, her favourite affirmations and biggest dreams!Tamara Walcott is a multi world-record holding powerlifter, mompreneur, and speaker hailing from the sm...2023-09-0643 min
TenetEp. 168 Marisa S. White – Fine Art Photographer, PhotomontageSend us a textThis week Wes and Todd sit down with Fine Art Photographer, Marisa S. White. Marissa discusses pancakes, digital art, AI, art festival categories, photomontage, portfolio reviews, process, technology, the compulsion to create, the encouragement she received in her youth from her father, the support of her husband, Surrealism, Magritte, clouds, Carl Sagan, meditation, spirituality, sizes of work, pricing, editions, presentation, Namibia, art festivals, printing, workflow, vulnerability, fear, goals, gallery representation, business tips, social media, art scammers, commissions, Art Store Fronts, PX3, contests & awards, exhibitions, and boldness in photography.Join us for...2023-08-313h 11Yoga with MelissaPowerful Full Body Self Connection Yin Yang Yoga | YWM 663Welcome to a powerful Yin Yang Yoga class, focused on cultivating full-body self-connection. This practice combines elements of strength and surrender, offering a balanced experience for your body and mind.
We begin with 30 minutes of yin yoga and Butterfly pose, encouraging self-connection and the recognition of our inner refuge. Trusting in our own presence, we can navigate life's complexities with more ease and find contentment in caring for ourselves.
Moving into Pigeon pose, we explore appropriate edges, embracing grace, gratitude, and acceptance. Stillness becomes our guide, allowing the magic of yin yoga to unfold, nurturing our bones, joints, and meridians...2023-08-171h 09Living your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestPowerful Full Body Self Connection Yin Yang Yoga | YWM 663Welcome to a powerful Yin Yang Yoga class, focused on cultivating full-body self-connection. This practice combines elements of strength and surrender, offering a balanced experience for your body and mind.
We begin with 30 minutes of yin yoga and Butterfly pose, encouraging self-connection and the recognition of our inner refuge. Trusting in our own presence, we can navigate life's complexities with more ease and find contentment in caring for ourselves.
Moving into Pigeon pose, we explore appropriate edges, embracing grace, gratitude, and acceptance. Stillness becomes our guide, allowing the magic of yin yoga to unfold, nurturing our bones, joints, and meridians...2023-08-171h 09
Breathing WindEpisode swap“Grief cracks you open. It makes us vulnerable… I feel vulnerable.” ~ Christie Aschwanden “A creative practice prepared me for grief.” ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer This month, we’re offering you a feed swap. Emerging Form, co-hosted by poet Rosemmery Wahtola Trommer and journalist Christie Aschwanden, is a podcast about creative process. These two friends cover everything from the business of creativity, to cultivating openness and pleasure, to meeting failure as part of the process. Whether they’re talking between themselves or inviting other creatives to share some of their journey, their conversati...2023-08-1027 minYoga with MelissaBlissful Heart Effortless Full Body Restorative Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 661https://youtu.be/0fhoJOC9BL4
Blissful Heart Effortless Full Body Restorative Yoga is a 60 minute, deeply rejuvenating and heart-centered practice. You will experience a unique blend of restorative yoga poses and inspiring poetry for your heart chakra, your heart organ system, your heart meridian, and fire element in summer that is deeply soothing and nourishing during the most yang time of year.
As you effortlessly rest into your restorative yoga postures, I will read you contemporary, spirit-infused poetry designed to touch your heart and encourage introspection and self reflection. May these inspiring words from contemporary heart-felt spiritual poets resonate with...2023-06-3052 minLiving your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestBlissful Heart Effortless Full Body Restorative Yoga | Yoga with Melissa 661https://youtu.be/0fhoJOC9BL4
Blissful Heart Effortless Full Body Restorative Yoga is a 60 minute, deeply rejuvenating and heart-centered practice. You will experience a unique blend of restorative yoga poses and inspiring poetry for your heart chakra, your heart organ system, your heart meridian, and fire element in summer that is deeply soothing and nourishing during the most yang time of year.
As you effortlessly rest into your restorative yoga postures, I will read you contemporary, spirit-infused poetry designed to touch your heart and encourage introspection and self reflection. May these inspiring words from contemporary heart-felt spiritual poets resonate with...2023-06-3052 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastA Vast Net of Kindness
As the poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer teaches us, even as the whole world can seem to be falling, we have a choice whether to contribute to isolation and fear or to a vast net of generosity and kindness in which we hold one another. Perhaps when we feel most afraid and most isolated, it's the time to ask ourselves the other side of the question too - are we willing to receive and be open to the support that's there? Because our turning away from receiving is also our turning away from giving.
This week's Turning Towards Life...2023-06-2533 min
much poetry muchnessWatching My Friend Pretend Her Heart is Not Breaking, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer2023-06-2301 minYoga with MelissaFull Body Deep Stretch with Sun Salutations | YWM 657https://youtu.be/mKk2m7NBCPc
This hatha yoga full body deep stretch will support you in releasing tension and sore muscles at any time of day but is great for mornings. We will support our nervous system in this deep stretching using a technique called Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). PNF stretching involves a combination of stretching and contracting muscles to improve your flexibility by creating a feeling of safety in your nervous system.
We will start this full body deep stretch hatha yoga class with wrist-free sun salutations to improve circulation and blood flow throughout your body so that...2023-06-0253 minLiving your Yoga with Dr Melissa WestFull Body Deep Stretch with Sun Salutations | YWM 657https://youtu.be/mKk2m7NBCPc
This hatha yoga full body deep stretch will support you in releasing tension and sore muscles at any time of day but is great for mornings. We will support our nervous system in this deep stretching using a technique called Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF). PNF stretching involves a combination of stretching and contracting muscles to improve your flexibility by creating a feeling of safety in your nervous system.
We will start this full body deep stretch hatha yoga class with wrist-free sun salutations to improve circulation and blood flow throughout your body so that...2023-06-0253 min
so...poetry?s6ep3 - don't stop fe-feelin'in which Ann Marie Brokmeier, Tyler Mendelsohn, and i talk grief, poetry, and their intersections!
where to find Ann Marie:
instagram - @annmariebrok
where to find Tyler:
website - https://tylerkmendelsohn.com/
instagram - @tyler_k_m
other things referenced:
Ada Limón - https://www.adalimon.net/
Ada Limón Bomb Magazine interview - https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ada-lim%C3%B3n/#:~:text=AL%20I%20think%20poetry%20is,it%20out%20into%20the%20sky
After the Fire by Ada Limón - https://scalar.fas.harvard.edu/resources-for-loss/after-the-fire-by-ada-limn
The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver - https://www.reddit.com...2023-05-312h 25
Write On Four CornersWrite On Four Corners: with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerProlific Colorado Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares poems from her newest book of poetry, "All the Honey," on this week's episode of Write on Four Corners.2023-05-2530 min
The Scott Michlin Morning ProgramWrite On Four Corners: with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerProlific Colorado Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares poems from her newest book of poetry, "All the Honey," on this week's episode of Write on Four Corners.
2023-05-2530 min
The One You FeedSpecial Episode: Tribute to Mary OliverApril is National Poetry Month and we 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 will read one of their favorite Mary Oliver poems and share why the poem is meaningful to them. Whether you are a fan of Mary Oliver's work or are just learning about her for the first time, we hope you'll be inspired by some of the beautiful poetry in this episode! For more on this episode, click here!See omnystudio.com...2023-04-2831 minThe One You FeedHow to Embrace Life's Paradoxes with Rosemerry Wahtola-TrommerIn This Episode, You'll Learn: Learning to not resist the pain and grief of a terrible loss to find healing What it means to trust in life, even when the worst thing comes true How poetry embraces life’s greatest paradoxes Asking the question “is this the path of love?” Using the word “Hello” as a way to greet what’s going on within her How to embrace the unknown and cultivate trust during life's unpredictable moments Learning to boost personal growth and mindfulness with the help of powerful mantras How to can unlock potential for inner change by embracing...2023-04-2159 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastUncertainty is a Sacred Path
We greatly misunderstand ourselves and other people when we take ourselves to be 'fixed', just ‘one-way’. However stuck we've become, there is something of us that is always changing, and even when we can't see it there's always the seed of change waiting for the right moment to burst forth.
So how do we learn to trust that in ourselves and others that is life's never ceasing unfolding into itself? How do we undo the rigid stories and judgments that increase the distance between us? And how do we take up an understanding about ourselves and other people that...2023-04-1730 min
Emerging FormEpisode 85: Rosemerry Explores the Full SpectrumHow do you create a project that at the same time reaches toward grief and toward joy? What does it ask of our creative practice? What does it take, practically speaking, to make it feel cohesive? In this special episode of Emerging Form, the co-hosts talk about Rosemerry’s new book, All the Honey, which releases April 18 from Samara Press. They talk about how to select poems for a collection and how to order them. They talk about the somewhat mysterious arrival of the title and how some of the poems were written, including a romp of a poem ab...2023-04-0626 min
Breathing WindLeaning into Love is Leaning into Grief“Leaning into love is leaning into grief,” — Sarah Davis In this week’s episode, co-hosts Naila and Sarah muse on our conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and all she gifted us with her openness and generosity. Inspired by how she’s being guided by her word of the year — “hello” — we share our own words for 2023. We also talk about our willingness, and protectiveness, when it comes to publicly inviting others into our own grief journeys. As we continue to encourage listening to these conversations for threads of our own stories and truths, we dive into the questi...2023-04-0448 min
I Don't Know How You Do ItNavigating Grief and Joy Inch by Inch with Kelly CervantesIn May 2016, Kelly and Miguel Cervantes received two life-changing pieces of news: Miguel landed the starring role of Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton: An American Musical and their then 7-months-old baby, Adelaide, was diagnosed with epilepsy and eventually, infantile spasms, a severe form of childhood epilepsy. Kelly transitioned from being their family’s primary bread winner to being a stay-at-home mom/nurse/pharmacist/therapist and all the other jobs that come with parenting a medically complex child. A few years later, Adelaide passed away.In this conversation, we talk about Kelly's journey from career woman to car...2023-03-2841 min
Breathing WindHonoring the Full Range of Grief“I really trust life itself to rise up and help me meet the things that I cannot control. I trust love to show up and help me meet the things that I cannot control.” ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer In this week’s episode, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer cries and laughs her way through an expansive and nourishing conversation about grief, creativity and love. We talk with her about poetry as a practice for meeting each moment, her unfolding journey through devastating loss and where those experiences of creativity and grief intersect. She also shares how she’s been car...2023-03-2151 minmuch poetry muchnessHow the Healing Happens, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer2023-03-1201 minmuch poetry muchnessBelonging, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer2023-03-1200 minmuch poetry muchnessAllium by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer2023-03-1200 min
Cool Gray in Studio APersonal Paranormal Encounters Part 5 Ft Valerie LofasoIn this fifth part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome author and empathic medium Valerie Lofaso. Valerie is also a Reiki Master/Teacher, a paranormal investigator. She is the author of the “Tangled Web of Friends” young-adult paranormal fiction series. Though she has been an empath her whole life, she has come to understand what that means over the past twenty years through research, investigating, and field work. She co-founded of the KRI Center for Consciousness Studies which operated from 2009 - 2019; where she managed and facilitated events, lectures, and classes in all fringe subjects. She also founded her Empa...2023-03-0256 min
Stillpoints: A Podcast with Scott JohnsonReflections 2022 - What does it mean to live a contemplative life?Scott shares intimate moments with his guests over the year. Hear beautiful words from his conversations with Ty Landrum, Sarah Powers, Ty Powers, Nadia Gilani, Pamela Weiss, Shyam Ranganathan and Jon Yuen. You can listen to all this years episodes here. Scott also intersperses the guests words with poetry that has inspired him over the year, words that he has shared with his online and workshop communities. Listen to poems from Derek Mahon, Julia Fehrenbacher, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Rumi and more... We hope you have a happy and prosperous 2023 from all of us at...2022-12-3123 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastThanks
What happens in us and between us when we learn to live on the inside of wonder, amazement, and deep gratefulness for the life we have been given - all of it?
Might gratitude, indeed, be exactly what is called for in order for us to turn towards the world with all its difficulties and all its suffering, with the energy, creativity and love to do something about it all?
This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting...2022-12-2531 minMindrolling with Raghu MarkusEp. 466 – Poetry & Silence w/ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Word WomanWord Woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, returns with Raghu to dive deep into poetry, spirituality, silence, grief, love, trust, and listening. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her family, served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS New Hour, in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, in back alleys and on river rocks. Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; and teaches and performs poetry for addiction...2022-11-1857 min
Be Here Now NetworkMindrolling – Raghu Markus – Ep. 466 – Poetry & Silence w/ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Word WomanWord Woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, returns with Raghu to dive deep into poetry, spirituality, silence, grief, love, trust, and listening.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her family, served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS New Hour, in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, in back alleys and on river rocks. Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; and teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, m...2022-11-1857 min
Emerging FormEpisode 75: What is Success?Image: Rosemerry and her daughter definitely succeeded in making a delicious chocolate beet birthday cake. What is success? How have your ideas about success changed over time? Who is someone you think of when you think of a successful person in your field? How has their success made an impact on you? What risks have you taken for success? In this conversation, co-hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden explore the importance of role models, external vs. internal markers for success, and what happens when you meet your goal posts–how does that change your ide...2022-11-1735 min
HeartSpeak with Naomi HoriiHeart Speak - Living in harmony at the intersection of oppositesJoin us for a conversation with award-winning poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on living in harmony at the intersection of opposites.Guest Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a heart-based and award-winning poet discusses living in harmony at the intersection of opposites, and shares some of her poetry. See wordwoman.com for more information about Rosemerry.2022-10-2854 min
Voice RisingRosemary Wahtola Trommer - Meeting Grief with More Love, More LoveRosemary Wahtola Trommer – Meeting Grief with More Love, More LoveAired Monday, September 26, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM GMT / 8:00 PM CETWhere to go when our heart is raw and our limbs are tired? When our bones and brittle and the landscapes barren, are there fat raindrops that wash away the pain? Can the scratch of our pen against plain white paper bring us hope when conversations seem senseless? Join Kara Johnstad and acclaimed Poet Rosemerry Trommer Wahtola in a heartfelt conversation on meeting grief, the power of daily practice, and her upcoming collection of po...2022-09-2756 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastIt is No Small Thing to Trust Yourself
In a culture that values 'keeping it all together', it is no small thing to trust ourselves - to welcome the parts of ourselves that are scared, or confused, or unravelling. When we remember that there's always something of ourselves that we can trust, perhaps we can turn towards those parts of us - that we might otherwise try to push away - and hold them in just the ways in which they long to be held. And when we do this for each other, we strengthen the bonds of trust in one another that support us as we voice...2022-08-2832 min
The Reformed Journal Podcast"Bioluminescence" by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerIn this episode of the Poetry Edition of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about her poem "Bioluminescence." Rosemerry has been publishing her poetry daily on her website A Hundred Falling Veils for the last 10+ years, and is a co-host of the podcast Emerging Form. 2022-06-1313 min
Tara BrachMeditation: Path of LoveMeditation: Path of Love - This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”2022-04-2118 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: Meditation: Path of Love(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”2022-04-2018 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: Meditation: Path of Love(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”2022-04-2018 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastRemembering Our Infinite Value
What would be if we could each help one another remember the ways in which we matter, the ways in which are are unarguably of value, the ways in which our mere presence is a gift? Perhaps it would help us find some respite from the strong cultural pressures to think of ourselves as incomplete, or faulty, or missing something. Perhaps it would help us give up equating our value with our looks, our circumstances, our difficulty. And maybe it would give us the courage to respond to the world when our response is most called for.
This...2021-10-1032 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastI Come to You With No Need to Be Fixed
We're conditioned to think of ourselves and other people as in need of fixing, and it makes it so difficult for us to open to one another's beauty and mystery. So what if we could cultivate eyes and hearts of wonder at the luminescent half-moon of one another's presence, and receive one another as rivers do as they give their power and beauty to one another?
This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might walk a path of loving mutual inclusion, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
This...2021-09-2632 min
Một bài thơThank You by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerThank You
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
It’s not as if the door can decide:
Open. Closed. Locked. Unhinged.
The door is ever at the mercy
of the hand on the knob,
the shoulder that smashes it,
the wind that abruptly slams it shut,
the smile that swings it wide as noon.
Long ago, I learned every moment
has a door, and that those doors
never open themselves. That is why,
standing here, I am astonished
to see, through no effort of my own,
a...2021-09-0401 min
Thơ thơAn trú giữa đời 03One morning - by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
One morning
we will wake up
and forget to build
that wall we’ve been building,
the one between us
the one we’ve been building
for years, perhaps
out of some sense
of right and boundary,
perhaps out of habit.
One morning
we will wake up
and let our empty hands
hang empty at our sides.
Perhaps they will rise,
as empty things
sometimes do
when blown
by the wind.
Perhaps they simply
will not remember
how to grasp, how to rage.
We will wake up
that morning
and we will have
misp...2021-08-3104 min
Breakfast PoetryEp. 8: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | Only From Within: The Compassion of Narrating Our Own LifeRosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, storyteller, and human who sees and speaks from truth. In this episode, Rosemerry shares some of the poems that have changed the way she sees the world and herself in it. She reminds us of the power of believing in our own worth and our own beauty, that we are the narrator’s of our own life. Rosemerry has been writing a poem every day since 2006, and shares her advice on how to find poetry that moves you. This conversation will move you, and remind you that there’s nothing to fix about who...2021-05-231h 04Breakfast PoetryEp. 5: Rituals to Deepen Our Self-Respect & Tend to Hope - Blake SpaldingBlake Spalding is co-owner and chef at Hell's Backbone Grill at the edge of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Blake is more than an advocate for the land--she is in deep relationship with the spirit and the body of the land. As a brilliantly sensitive human, Blake talks about how ritual and poetry give her courage to face the suffering and pain we are all experiencing in the shadow of patriarchy, white supremacy, and other systems that keep us sick. Her resiliency as she lives a life of activism and advocacy is proof of the radical courage of her...2021-04-281h 02Mindrolling with Raghu MarkusEp. 387 – Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerPoet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, joins Raghu to discuss poetry as a spiritual path, meeting the blank page with trust, and the joyful daily practice of giving it away.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her husband and two children, served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS New Hour, in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, in back alleys and on river rocks. Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast...2021-04-091h 03
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastSaying Yes
What does it take to not just say 'yes' to our lives and to one another, but to bring our beauty, dignity, creativity and imagination in response? It's a different path to take from 'turning away', and equally different from 'passive acceptance'. Being a human affords us this possibility - that when we encounter fear, shame, wonder, injustice, confusion, or hope, we have the chance to muster a response that brings something new into the world. This episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what it is to hold what we would rather not hold, and to answer...2021-02-2832 min
Emerging FormEpisode 34: Creative mindfulness with James CrewsHow might stillness and a heightened sense of awareness infuse your creative endeavors? In this episode we speak with poet, editor and writing coach James Crews about how a daily mindfulness practice can help us meet creative stumbling blocks such as self-judgment and writer’s block with more clarity, curiosity, acceptance and even surprise. Can mindfulness be a hindrance to creativity? Are there “rules” for how and when to to do it? Can being quiet really help an art that depends on words? How might your creativity infuse your mindfulness? James Crews is the author of four collect...2021-02-2533 min
Emerging FormEpisode 31 Bonus: Three poems from Rosemerry about moving into the new yearFor Auld Lang Syne —Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerWe’ll drink a cup of kindness yet,says the song, and I would give youthe cup, friend, would fill itwith whiskey or water or whateverwould best meet your thirst.I fill it with the terrifying beautyof tonight’s bonfire—giant licksof red and swirls of blue that consumewhat is dead and melt the iceand give warmth to what is here.I fill it w...2021-01-2106 min
Emerging FormEpisode 31: New Year 2021!Photo: Christie & Rosemerry shortly before the pandemic began. (Yes, that is one of Rosemerry’s poems on Christie’s tights.)For creatives, the new year is a chance to look back on what we’ve accomplished and how we’ve grown in the past year, and also a chance to dream about our creative endeavors in the future. In this episode, Christie and Rosemerry have a conversation about how to do your own “year end report,” how a magic wand might help you identify your goals, and how two questions from Motivational Interviewing can help you verbaliz...2021-01-1434 minVoice RisingRosemerry Wahtola Trommer - The Gift of PoetryRosemerry Wahtola Trommer – The Gift of PoetryAired Monday, December 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM GMT / 7:00 PM CETPoet and storyteller Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer gets audiences to wake up and take on their creative endeavors. She helps people find poetry in their own lives and tell their own stories. Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in a heartfelt conversation on the voice of poetry Honoring our stories and stilling our insatiable thirst for beauty and truth by starting a writing practice. What makes a poem want to sing into the night? How ca...2020-12-0856 min
Emerging FormEpisode 27: Creative Communities with Kayleen Asbo“Find what you long for and be brave and vulnerable enough to offer it to the world.” So says Kayleen Asbo, our featured guest on this episode of Emerging Form in which we speak about how to foster and shape creative community. Asbo is a cultural historian, composer, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. We talk about passion, about ways to help a group find juice, about how a group leader can encourage trust and intimacy, as Asbo says, by leading “with your own breaking open heart.” At their be...2020-11-0538 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastA Table Made of Listening
Listening deeply, lovingly and fearlessly to one another is among the most nourishing and life-giving practices we humans can take up, and yet many of us have few places in our lives where we regularly do this. Perhaps that's because laying out a 'table made of listening' for one another, one that is open enough and solid enough and safe enough, calls on us to welcome parts of ourselves and others that we often push away. It turns out that the practice of listening to one another, difficult as it may be to start with, cultivates exactly the kind of...2020-10-1834 min
Milwaukee Mennonite Monday Morning DevotionalsEpisode 7: Forgiveness and JusticeErin Cassidente shares about Christ's call to forgive, despite how difficult or frequent that may be. She couples this with the call to seek justice, reading Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poem, "In the Steps of RBG."2020-10-1200 min
Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcastIf We Were No Longer Pushing
How about we find a way to live without permanently being annoyed that things aren't just as we'd like them? Might that not be a path to some joy? Could we give up the way we exhaust ourselves (and often others!) by our attempts to push life around, to control it, to have things just our way? A conversation about creativity, relationship, what happens when we let ourselves fall into life, and giving up trying to herd cats, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by...2020-05-1739 min
Rattle Poetryep. 41 - Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerEpisode #41 welcomes Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and her most recent book, Naked for Tea. Rosemerry has been a regular contributor to Poets Respond and the Ekphrastic Challenge for years.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in southwest Colorado and is the author of eleven collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in O Magazine, Rattle.com, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion, and on river rocks she leaves around town. She’s taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Creative Arts, Camp Coca-Cola, meditation retreats, addiction recovery programs, hospice, and many other organizations. She’s wo...2020-05-131h 22
Shelter in Place: escape into life.Creativity and COVID-19 with Emerging FormIn honor of Mother's Day, Laura shares this very special bonus episode, a conversation with Emerging Form's hosts, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden. They talk about motherhood, creativity in the time of COVID-19, and what the daily practice of creating has taught them during this time of life in a pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.2020-05-1142 min
Emerging FormEpisode 15: From rut to self-actualization (with Scott Barry Kaufman)Are you living up to your creative potential? Or are you stuck in a rut? Could it be that the rut is serving you? These are some of the questions we wrestle with in this episode of Emerging Form. We talk about Christie’s sweet spot between struggle and boredom, how fencing (or another new activity) might supercharge your creative process, and LOTS of tips on how to get out of a rut. We finish, as always with a guest. This episode features Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist at Columbia University and author of the new book, Tr...2020-04-0931 min
Emerging FormEpisode 14: Creative work in the midst of COVID-19 (with Rob Dozier and Sarina Bowen)Like a lot of life plans over the past few weeks, this episode veered from our original schedule. We’d planned to discuss the joys and challenges of creating things with friends, but instead we found ourselves talking about these strange times. In this emergency episode of Emerging Form, we talk about how COVID-19 is changing what and how we write, and how it’s affecting all kinds of creative careers. Warning: we get a bit emotional at times. Topics include toilet paper hoarding, coronavirus anxiety, the importance of the arts, financial insecurity, online alternatives to in pers...2020-03-2644 min
Emerging FormBonus: Rosemerry reads a poem she wrote for a dying friendAs Mentioned in the Podcast: In this week’s podcast, we mentioned a poem I wrote about my dear friend Sally Estes when she was told she had three months to live. Here I am reading the poem. It’s also printed below.They Say It’s the Best Bloom in Ten Years —Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerShe wants to go see the bluebonnets, she says.This is after she tells me they’ve said she has three months to live.And I want to find her vast fields of bluebonn...2020-02-1401 min
Emerging FormEpisode 11: Working with Emotionally Difficult Topics (with guest Thea Deley)Engaging in a creative project can be hard enough when the subject matter is fun. But what about when it’s emotionally taxing, too? In this episode, we talk about many techniques for working with topics that make us uneasy—from changing perspective to creating rituals. Then we talk with Thea Deley, speaker, writer and improviser, and ask her two questions: 1) When do you know you are ready to write about something difficult—what is the role of perspective, and 2) How do you navigate stories that might hurt someone? We are interested in your answers to these questions, too!E...2020-02-1334 min