POETRY, PRAISE & THE ALCHEMY OF GRIEF | Free Radical Podcast #67 | Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer April 1, 2026

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about her experiences with grief and creativity following the loss of her son.

🌿 This episode holds some very tender terrain, including the loss of a child to suicide. If this is close to your heart, we invite you to listen at your own pace, honoring whatever arises within you. If needed, you might set it down and return when the time feels right.🌿 With that in mind, we invite you into a deeply moving and quietly evocative conversation on the Free Radical Podcast with award-winning poet, teacher, and speaker Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. A lifelong writer and co-host of "Emerging Form", Rosemerry has been devoted to the daily practice of poetry since 2006—a steady ritual that became a lifeline following the loss of her teenage son in 2021. In this intimate and expansive episode, Rosemerry opens a doorway into her creative path, her daily poems from "A Hundred Falling Veils," and her audio series "The Poetic Path." Drawing from her celebrated collections "All the Honey" and "The Unfolding," and her work as Poet Laureate for Evermore, she invites us into the subtle terrain where grief softens into wonder, where language becomes a bridge, and where the ordinary shimmers with quiet revelation. Together, we wander through questions of how to live and create in…

People in this episode

Host: Swami Padmanabha

Guest: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Topics covered

• grief
• poetry
• loss
• creativity
• vulnerability
• wonder

Keywords

• grief
• poetry
• loss of a child
• creativity
• vulnerability
• wonder
• intimacy
• presence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Emerging Form, Evermore

Books & works: A Hundred Falling Veils, All the Honey, The Unfolding

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