Writing Ourselves into Wonder: Meeting Difficult Times with Poetry | Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- IPM Team
- Mar 4
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 13
Opening Weekend of IPM's Online
Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry
Saturday, April 25
9 am - 1 pm Pacific Time
In the dark times
will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
about the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”
In every moment there is the chance to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the story of our world. Though a poem can’t fix things, can’t heal us, can’t change the facts, reading and writing poems can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything. Together we’ll read poems, converse about them, use them as launching points for our own writing and talk about process. We’ll explore playing with metaphors and paradox, letting curiosity lead us past the edge of what we think we know into new possibilities for framing a moment. Wonder will be our guide. We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer helps weave a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice. More a playshop than a workshop, more soulwork than craft, though we will talk about how craft can serve our creative process, too. All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate in 2019. Since 2024, she’s been poet laureate for Evermore.
Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process, host of The Poetic Path—a daily program on the Ritual app, cofounder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle. She directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years and co-hosted Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club for another ten years.
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