Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – The Gift of Poetry

Aired Monday, December 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM GMT / 7:00 PM CET

Poet 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 can we let poetry unfold with ease? Is poetry medicine for the soul? Can we learn to bend into a poem and like a willow, surrender at its feet?

About Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemerry co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process.

She teaches poetry for mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, scientists, hospice, and more. Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prarie Home Companion, in Rattle.com, and in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize.

To get in touch with Kara go to http://www.karajohnstad.com/

Visit the Voice Rising show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/voice-rising/

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