POETRY AS RITUAL
Reading and Writing to Meet the World in a New Way
Facilitated by: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Available by: Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
Elective Credit: 1
How do we deepen our relationship with the world?
With a practice of showing up—showing up for beauty and joy, of course, and also showing up for fear, for sorrow, for loss, and for every shade in between.
In this four-week playshop:
We’ll read poems that help us to meet the moment in all its purity and complexity.
We’ll discover how poems help us to create connections between outer landscapes (the world of experiences) and inner landscapes (the realm of emotions, ideas and questions).
Then we’ll explore our own creative practice, building bridges of words between the self and others, self and the natural world, self and the divine and the self with the self.
How might a poetic practice inform every part of our lives and help us to re-see the world?
Students of all experience levels are welcome—from first-time poets to Pulitzer Prize winners.
FACULTY:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts Emerging Form (a 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. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Rosemerry has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006. Find her daily poems on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available on your phone with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to deepen your writing practice, and her poetry album, Dark Praise, explores “endarkenment,” available anywhere you listen to music. Her most recent collection is All the Honey.