This is a 4-Evening Workshop meeting Wednesdays
Dates:
4 Wednesday Evenings, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
January 5, 12, 19, 26, 2022
Available by: Join by Videoconference or Watch Online Recordings (learn more about videoconference)
Price: General Public: $ 100.00 | One Spirit Graduates: $ 90.00
One Spirit Elective Credit: 1.0
Poetry can help open so many doors—doors of healing, curiosity, epiphany, and intimacy.
For four weeks, we’ll read and write poems together and explore how a poetry practice might bring us into a more present, more connected, more wonder-full way to engage with the world. Specifically, we’ll explore how poetry helps us offer our attention to what is happening all around us and inside us.
Themes Include:
Seeing the story behind the thing
Playing with how to look
Discovering metaphors
Reframing our perspective
In every class, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will offer writing prompts to help reframe the self, to unlearn, and to fathom our connection with others, the world, and the divine. There will always be a chance to share, but only to the extent that it feels safe. All levels of poetry experience are welcome. The only prerequisite: your willingness to feel, listen, play, pick up a pen and see what happens next. Join us.
FACULTY:
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