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September 24, 2025 6-7 mountain time
zoom, recorded
sliding scale

How do we live fully in the face of catastrophe? Last night I read this quote from Puerto Rican poet Aurora Levins Morales, and I thought, THAT. That is what I am hoping to do with this program: “The world is in great danger from runaway greed. The only thing that can stop it is large numbers of people becoming able to imagine and then create something better. … Because once we truly imagine it, the pull to create it becomes irresistible.”

Let’s imagine together. In this hour-long webinar-style program, I will share poems that help keep our eyes and hearts open to it all, poems that help us turn toward the horror and find a way forward. I will then offer invitations for you to do your own writing later–if you wish. Or just come to listen to brave, heart-opening poems. 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 I read, plus the writing invitations. For more info and to register, visit here

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Poeming into the New Year

FREE 40-minute poetry thoughtshop on transformation and honoring the moment

Tuesday, December 29, 4 p.m mountain time

The start of a new year is a natural chance to recalibrate—to get curious and let everything come into question. What a time to be amazed and astonished, to open ourselves to transformation. Poetry, both reading and writing it, can guide us into deeper wonder and help us meet our own hearts and the hearts of others. In this 40-minute thoughtshop, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will read poems from diverse voices about showing up, new beginnings and transformation, poems that invite spaciousness into constricted places, poems that help us awaken to the moment and to our lives. And with each poem, she’ll offer prompts—ways for you to leap into your own writing practice.

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qJu-WVhlTQC2LCOHfGc38A
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

This event is hosted bySHYFT at Mile High whose mission is to provide all people, regardless of ability to pay, with classes and programs proven to reduce stress, heal trauma, and create connection.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process with Christie Aschwanden), Stubborn Praise (an online poetry reading series with James Crews) Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal with Sherry Richert Belul) and Soul Writer’s Circle (with meditation teacher Augusta Kantra). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS Newshour, Poetry of Presence, and in her daily poetry blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. Her most recent collection, Hush won the Halcyon Prize. She teaches poetry for parents, scientists, mindfulness retreats. One word mantra: Adjust.

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