Open Me: A Conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

About this episode

A conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer exploring themes of grief, gratitude, and the human experience.

We are so excited to share this podcast with the amazing poet and human, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. As Erin mentions in the intro, you might want to have some tissues handy, as we dive right into the deep end, and the conversation is filled with tenderness and beauty. In our conversation, Rosemerry reads some of her gorgeous poems, and we move through many rich themes including grief and gratitude, ways to be with someone who is grieving, holding paradox and the stretch of the human heart, and being opened by life. The conversation has the same wide range of this experience of being human as does Rosemerry's writing. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County's first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate in 2019. She performs as a storyteller, including shows in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House, at the Taos Storytelling Festival, Page Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Her TEDx talk…

People in this episode

Guest: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Topics covered

• poetry
• grief
• gratitude
• human experience
• storytelling

Keywords

• tenderness
• beauty
• paradox
• life

Mentioned in this episode

Products: A Hundred Falling Veils

Books & works: Open Me:, Colorado Poet Laureate, TEDx, A Hundred Falling Veils, Take Heart, Embodying the Great Turning

Places: Placerville, Colorado, San Miguel River, San Miguel County's, Aspen, Jonesborough, TN

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