LIVE Workshop via Zoom | Tuesdays, January 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2026 from 7:00-9:00PM
Writing From Rupture - A Poetic Exploration of Meeting Our Brokenness
With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Every experience in life is worthy of our careful attention—even the most painful, broken times—and poetry provides a way to meet each experience with a willingness to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the story of our world. Though a poem can’t fix things, can’t heal us, can’t change the facts, reading and writing poems can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything.
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In this workshop…
Together we’ll read poems, converse about them, use them as launching points for our own writing and talk about process. We’ll explore playing with metaphors and paradox, letting curiosity lead us past the edge of what we think we know into new possibilities for framing a moment. Wonder will be our guide. We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies.
This workshop is for…
Anyone who is curious about the healing power of creativity. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer helps weave a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice. More a playshop than a workshop—more soulwork than craft, though we will talk about how craft can serve our creative process, too. All levels of poetry-writing experience welcome.
PLEASE NOTE: This class may not be for you if….
You need crisis care or clinical support.
You are looking for an experience that will “fix” your feelings of brokenness
What you’ll Explore
How to use creative writing to express your inner experience.
How to use writing as a tool for meeting difficult feelings.
How to hold our stories more loosely, with less judgment, more curiosity.
What you’ll Experience
Playing with metaphors to create new frames for seeing the world.
Sharing your experience (if desired) in a supportive community.
Writing From Rupture, Four Sessions
Session 1
January 6, 2026
Session 2
January 13, 2026
Session 3
January 20, 2026
Session 4
January 27, 2026
About the Presenter,
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (she/her)
is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator who co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process.
Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, Washington Post’s Book Club, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In 2024, she became poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief and love through poetry. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day, sharing them on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. One-word mantra: Adjust.
Where can I access the workshop?
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