Interview on Loss in Global Heart
How does love continue to grow after loss? I am so grateful for Global Heart for sharing this interview about devastation after loss, about how we speak about grief with others, about writing as a way to meet loss, and the yin and yang energies of writing. Plus four poems from my newest book The Unfolding.
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Interview with Danusha Laméris on Emerging Form
How is a poetic practice like faith? I was so excited when I asked poet Danusha Laméris what was most exciting for her these days in her creative process and THAT was the question she was asking herself. We talk about this, how she thinks all art comes from an “irritant” we struggle with our whole lives, how a writing practice grows us, the role of trust in creative practice, and the relationship between creative practice and time. You can listen to our conversation on my podcast on creative process, Emerging Form, which I cohost with my bestie, science writer Christie Aschwanden. This episode with Danusha just came out on Thursday—and there are over a hundred more free main episodes you can listen to, too! Plus bonus content for paid subscribers. Find out more here.
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Poem in ONE ART Haiku Anthology
If you’ve been subscribing to the daily poems for a while, you know I love very short poems, and I am delighted to have one of my haikulings (what I like to call my three-line poems) accepted into the ONE ART 2025 Haiku Anthology. You can read this fabulous collection here.
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Celebrating Earth Day with Poetry and One Earth Sangha
For Earth Day, I am so happy to have a poem published by One Earth Sangha—a poem that celebrates this world—how unique, how fragile, how singular. What is our work as stewards to this beautiful planet? What lens must we use to see how essential it is for us to do everything we can to care for it? Feel free to share this link with your own Earth Day celebrations and gatherings.
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Pure Imagination: A Poetry Thoughtshop Drawing on One of Our Greatest Gifts
April 24, 6-7 MT,
Zoom, recording available
sliding scale
The effort of the imagination is to turn the boundary into a horizon because there is no end point for you. The boundary says, Here and no further. The horizon says, Welcome.
—Barry Lopez, Horizons (short film by Jeremy Seifert)
How do we envision a better world for ourselves, for others? How do we dream into the world we most want to inhabit? How can imagination enrich not only our creative practice but our lives? What might happen if we let ourselves think new thoughts and form new ideas beyond what is right in front of us … Let’s find out together. In this one-hour webinar-style thoughtshop, join poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer as she reads and talks about poems that blossom out of the real and welcome us into the realm of infinite possibility. She will then offer invitations for you to do your own writing later. There will be time for questions and responses. After the event, all who register will receive a link to the recording, links to the poems she reads, plus the writing invitations. To register, visit here.