Rosemerry Trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and cohost of the Emerging Form podcast. Rosemerry 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.
 
Rosemerry’s poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, and American Life in Poetry. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize and Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. She is author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice.
 
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. Themes in her writings include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, thriving and failure, grief, and daily life.