In Beauty and In Sorrow: Poetry as a Tool for Meeting the All of It

"Every experience in life is worthy of our careful attention-and poetry provides a way to meet each experience with wonder and a willingness to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the story of our world. Though a poem can’t change the facts, it can change the way we meet the facts, and this can change everything." - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Please join me and Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for a one-day retreat and luncheon in the northern suburban area of Chicago. Rosemerry is a poet, teacher, and storyteller. Read Bio Here

Rosemerry helps weave a safe environment for exploring how to bring wonder and self-compassion into a creative practice, to listen into your true heart-voice. 

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. We’ll be less interested in writing something perfect and more interested in discovering our own stumbling blocks and epiphanies.

More a playshop than a workshop, all levels of poetry-writing experience are welcome. No Writing experience needed just an open heart!

Open to all seekers, meditators, tender-hearted souls, poets, writers, revolutionaries, and light workers.