Grief and Grace: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Loss and grief break us open. Perhaps you, too, find yourself leaning into this vulnerable, tender place. In this webinar-style poetry thoughtshop, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares poems that explore this broken-hearted terrain, poems of sorrow, compassion, love, peace and healing, poems that help us remember our loved ones and re-encounter the world and ourselves without their physical presence. She shares poetry to help us open our hearts, to lean deeper into paradox, to dance with uncertainty, and to find words that help meet the complex terrains of grief. For each poem Rosemerry discusses, she also offers prompts to help you write poems to give voice to your own sorrows.
Recorded May 18, 2022

[@janegreen191]

Beautiful!

[@rosemerryt]

thank you!

[@wendytaylor4368]

Hi, I am from Lacey WA and love your words straight from your ❤️

[@rosemerryt]

thank you, friend--I'm glad you could join us in big time with the video.

[@ilovesunvalley]

I am so thankful to have attended this experience. To hear these words so healing taught me that grief can be honored so profoundly and expressed through poetry. I can hardly wait for my book to arrive. It will be at my bedside. Rosemerry has a gift so sublime, to soothe and uplift, and connect. May her words bless us all.

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Mellie--It is so what I hope for, that the poems soothe and uplift and connect--thank you. Thank you. ❤

[@wendytaylor4368]

Today grief is complex knowing when to seek a new home

[@rosemerryt]

oh yes. thank you for adding to the list.

[@macaquita007]

This was so tender and beautiful. Thank you ❤️

[@rosemerryt]

Thank you, Patrícia ❤

[@aspencrest]

2:56 Not to Make Loss Beautiful… by Gregory Orr
11:59 Winter Solstice 2020 by Bunkong Tuon
16:28 Sorrow Is Not My Name by Ross Gay
22:03 From Out the Cave by Joyce Sutphen
25:00 See More by Jean E. Taddonio
28:25 Blessing for an Anniversary Date by Jan Richardson
32:33 What to say when.. by Gloria Heffernan
37:09 Two Truths by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
39:38 Dressing for the Burial by Danusha Laméris'
42:41 What’s in a Broken Cup? by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

[@rosemerryt]

thank you! so helpful!!