Escaping Into the Present: Poetry as a Practice for Reseeing the World
Instructor: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 5:30-7:30pm (Mountain Time)
Price: Sliding Scale
Event will be recorded
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The act of writing a poem can bring us more closely to the essence of the moment, can help us exist in immediacy. In this two-hour online playshop, both practical and playful, we’ll sharpen our observational skills to engage with the poetry that lives in everything—objects, locations, situations, conversations. We’ll practice meeting what Hopkins calls “thisness.” As Mary Oliver writes, “the world offers itself to your attention, over and over.” Let’s meet it together, pen in hand. All levels of experience welcome.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts Emerging Form (a creative process podcast), Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal) and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app for your phone. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. She has 13 poetry collections, the newest is All the Honey. She’s been writing a poem a day since 2006 and she shares these on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils.
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