We are so excited to share this podcast with the amazing poet and human, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
As Erin mentions in the intro, you might want to have some tissues handy, as we dive right into the deep end of the heart, and the conversation is filled with tenderness and beauty.
In our conversation, Rosemerry reads several of her gorgeous poems, from All the Honey and The Unfolding, and we move through many rich themes including grief and gratitude, ways to be with someone who is grieving, the power of poetry, holding paradox and the stretch of the human heart, and being opened by life.
The conversation has the same wide range of the experience of being human as does Rosemerry’s writing. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her family 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.
She performs as a storyteller, including shows in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House, at the Taos Storytelling Festival, Page Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Her TEDx talk explores changing our outdated metaphors. For five years, she performed in the Telluride Literary Burlesque.
She has been writing a poem a day since 2006, posting them since 2011 on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. In 2021, her beloved teenage son died by suicide. After a 7 week hiatus she returned to writing and sharing daily poems from the depths of grief and love. Her poems can be heard daily on the Ritual app, The Poetic Path. Favorite themes include parenting, gardening, ecology, love, science, thriving/failure, grief and daily life.
You can find more about Rosemerry and her work at wordwoman.com