HOLY IN THE MOMENT:
A Poetry Reading & Writing Playshop
Dates: This is a 4-Evening Workshop meeting on Tuesdays
July 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
How do we deepen our relationship with the world?
Our survival depends on it.
The downfall of human society, said French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, will stem from our disconnect with the world around us. and Albert Einstein noted, “The field is the only reality.” Like the scientists, poets, too, have been exploring this concept for centuries.
In this four-week playshop we will:
Read poems that create connections between outer landscapes (the world of experiences) and inner landscapes (the realm of emotions, ideas and questions).
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.
Discover how a poetic practice might inform every part of our lives
Students of all experience levels welcome—from first-time poets to Pulitzer Prize winners. In every class there will always be a chance to share, but only to the extent that it feels safe. The only prerequisite: your willingness to feel, listen, play, pick up a pen and see what happens next. Join us.
Facilitator
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer creates a playful, safe classroom environment where people can explore writing. She lives on the banks of the San Miguel River in southwest Colorado. She served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017), the first San Miguel County poet Laureate (2007-2011), was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019), co-hosts Emerging Form (a podcast on creative process), is the co-founder of Secret Agents of Change, co-hosts Stubborn Praise (an online poetry salon) and co-directs Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club. Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS News Hour, in Rattle.com and American Life in Poetry, and on river rocks. She has thirteen poetry collections, most recently Hush, winner of the Halcyon Prize for poems of human ecology, and Naked for Tea, a finalist for the Able Muse book award. She teaches poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, scientists and more. She’s been a storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival and Taos Storytelling Festival. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. You can find her daily poems on her blog, www.ahundredfallingveils.com One-word mantra: Adjust. www.wordwoman.com
If you have questions about registering for this course, please contact One Spirit Learning Alliance by email to info@1spirit.org or call 212-931-6840.