Leaning into Uncertainty: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

“Write what you know,” says the adage, but what happens when we write to unknow? What happens when we let our curiosity guide our writing? In this webinar-style poetry thoughtshop, Rosemerry shares poems that launch us into wonder, lead us deeper into paradox, poems that help us connect to the world around us, squirrely and unpredictable as it is. For each poem, she offers a prompt to launch you into your own writing-not to make the world more orderly, not to fix or solve anything, but to explore uncertainty and enter into the mystery. How might a big dose of “what if” transform us when we sit down to write?
Hosted by SHYFT at Mile High. Recorded on August 17, 2022.

[@mindyk5094]

wonderful class! thank you!!!

[@JoannaPCarey]

Love this and you..

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Joanna, thank you! I hope you enjoyed the conversation ...

[@aspencrest]

6:15 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
7:40 Utopia by Wislawa Szymborska
14:21 Off The Wall by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
21:07 Zero Circle by Zero Circle by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
25:53 Sometimes by Hermann Hesse translated by Robert Bly
29:39 Walker by Antonio Machado translated by Willis Barnstone
32:15 Lost by David Wagoner
35:20 Notes on the Below -For Mammoth Cave National Park by Ada Limón
41:20 The Edge of Doubt by Albert Huffstickler
43:02 A Gift by Denise Levertov