In this episode I chat with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about mindfulness and poetry. (Check below to find links for Rosemerry and her work as well as the poems and books we chat about.) Here are some of the topics we dig into:
- Reading poetry as a mindfulness practice
- How to find poems that speak to you
- Poetry as a how-to manual on practicing mindfulness
- Asking the poem: what do you have to teach me?
- Grief and poetry
- Who can write poetry?
- A prompt for writing your own poem
Rosemerry’s Bio:
Rosemerry co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast on creative process, Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal) and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her next collection, All the Honey, comes out in April, 2023. Her new daily audio series, The Poetic Path, begins on the Ritual app in January 2023. One-word mantra: Adjust.