Invitation to (in-person) poetry reading in Sebastopol featuring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Sunday, July 30

[Larry Robinson]

You are cordially invited to join us for the great privilege of hearing

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 

reading from her new collection All The Honey


Sunday, July 30 at 3:00 PM

at the home of Rebecca Evert in Sebastopol.

Seating is limited. To reserve a space and get directions please write to Rebecca at revert at sonic.net <mailto:revert at sonic.net>.

Copies of All The Honey will be available to purchase; Rosemerry won’t be able to take credit cards for books, but can take venmo, zelle, cash and checks.


Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer <https://www.wordwoman.com/> co-hosts Emerging Form <https://emergingform.substack.com/> (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 <http://www.ahundredfallingveils.com/> or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path <https://app.ritual.io/rosemerry>, available on your phone with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to deepen your writing practice <https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Poetry-Presence-II-Practice/dp/1737105535/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GLHYB16OVXH2&keywords=exploring+poetry+of+presence+ii&qid=1686858903&s=books&sprefix=exploring+poetry+%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1>, and her poetry album, Dark Praise <https://rosemerrywahtolatrommer.bandcamp.com/album/dark-praise>, explores “endarkenment,” available anywhere you listen to music. Her most recent collection is All the Honey <https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-the-honey-rosemerry-wahtola-trommer/18666020>.
 


For the Living


It is the work of the living
to grieve the dead. 
It is our work to wake each day, 
to live into the world that is. 
It is our work to weep, 
and it is our work to be healed. 
Some part of us knows 
not only the absence of our beloveds, 
but also their presence, 
how they continue to teach us, 
how they invite us to grow. 
It is our work to be softened by loss, 
to be undone, destroyed, remade.
Wounded, we recoil, 
and it is our work to notice how, 
like crushed and trampled grass, 
we spring back. 
It is our work to meet death again
and again and again, 
and though it aches to be open, 
it is our work to be opened, 
to live into the opening
until we know ourselves
as blossoms nourished from within
by the radiance of the ones 
who are no longer physically here.
They have given us their love light to carry. 
It is our work to be in service to that light. 

	- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer



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