About The Event
Poetry As Portal is a new event series from WholeHeart that we'll host seasonally in the virtual space!
WholeHeart facilitators frequently use meaningful and evocative poetry in their programs and events as portals into deeper listening. Poetry can be a powerful tool to help participants listen to themselves and access new reservoirs of inner knowing as they hold life questions.
This new offering, Poetry As Portal, will highlight some of the poets whose work is among our favorites! Each 90-minute evening will feature:
3-4 original poems read aloud by the poet
A conversation with the poet about their own listening process, as well as some fun background about the pieces they have produced
Reflection and small-group time with one of the featured poems to spark our own insights
Community sharing to nourish our personal practices
When: Monday, June 3rd, 2024 at 7:00-8:30 pm ET
Where: This event is ONLINE ONLY - VIA ZOOM!
(Please register in advance to receive a Zoom link)
Please join us for Poetry As Portal, another tangible way to support one another in creating wholehearted community, as we listen and act toward a more hopeful, just, and relational 2024!
Special Guest
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. She’s written a poem a day since 2006.
You can receive them in your inbox or find them on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. Her new collection is All the Honey.
One-word mantra: Adjust.
Through Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s gaze of wonder, I am able to reclaim the landscape of loss as holy ground.
—Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is what Rumi called “a true human being,”—a person in whose presence pain becomes medicine that awakens us to the effervescence of each moment.
—Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words