Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Phyllis Cole-Dai (Foreword), Ruby R. Wilson (Foreword)

This companion book to Poetry of Presence More Mindfulness Poems is a guide for writing poetry as a mindfulness practice. It features eighty-eight thoughtful invitations to help you explore how you meet the world, even when (or especially when) it isn’t easy to be present.

“If you long to walk more deeply into the wilderness of poetry, I can’t think of a more masterful and generous guide than poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. In this companion edition, Rosemerry takes you by the hand and leads you to closer intimacy with not only poetry, but with all of life. — Julia Fehrenbacher, poet and author of Staying in Love

“Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has always been a wise and gentle guide, leading us into deeper presence with her luminous poems. Yet what she has crafted here, as a companion to an already soul-nourishing anthology, is nothing short of a sacred text that will lift you up, and keep you company on the whole human journey—from joy to loss and back to the joy of full aliveness again.” — James Crews, author of Kindness Will Save the World

148 pages, Paperback

Published April 13, 2023

About the author

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 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. Rosemerry has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006. Find her daily poems on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available on your phone with the Ritual app. She is the author of Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to deepen your writing practice, and her poetry album, Dark Praise, explores “endarkenment,” available anywhere you listen to music. Her most recent collection is The Unfolding.