Love Relentlessly
A three-week, online series with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Wednesdays, September 23, 30 & October 7, 2026, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. U.S./EST
$90 For the three-part series (includes recordings)
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About this offering
One of the great gifts of poetry is how reading, writing and conversing about poems helps us to see the same world in a new way. Even in the most difficult times, poems invite us to fall in love with the world that is here—this world with all its trouble and triumph, with all its heartache and humor, with fear and beauty. In this three-week program, we’ll explore different ways to see. We’ll change the lens, shift our perspective, and use our imaginations to see both what is present and what else is possible. Wonder will be our guide. Play will be our practice. Self-compassion will be our edge. And learning and unlearning how we love the world and each other will be the big invitation.
Sharing in small groups is always optional—it will also be possible to stay in the large group to talk about process. No previous writing experience or love for poetry necessary. All are welcome.
About the presenter
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice. Her spoken-word albums include Dark Praise, which explores “endarkenment,” and Risking Love, which explores loving even when it seems impossible. Both are available anywhere you listen to music.
She also co-hosts Emerging Form (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. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding.
In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry.