Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer:

Meeting the Tides of Life Through the Practice of Poetry

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer writes a poem every single day guided by the question "What is the truest thing I can say right now?" . This simple daily practice of honest presence has sustained her through the most devastating tragedy a parent can know-- the death of a beloved child-- and enabled her to grow to become a beacon of hope, compassion and resilience for thousands of readers.

To honor the release of her newest collection of poetry, All the Honey, Mythica invites you to a launch party where Rosemerry will read selections from her new book and then join her friend and artistic collaborator composer Kayleen Asbo in a conversation about how to meet life in all of its paradoxical facets.Together they will explore the theme of how creativity can alchemically transform the pain of profound loss into a source of brave beauty that calls us into deeper relationship with all that is.

“The title of the book is a nod to how all the honey in the world comes from two opposites—the sweetness of nectar and the bitterness of the pollen that feeds the bees,” Rosemerry says. “Those extremes are both found in this book—poems that explore extreme grief and astonishing beauty.” On that note, the book contains both very playful poems (like Mr. Clean coming to seduce women in their kitchens) and also poems that explore the first raw and fragile days after the suicide of Trommer’s teenage son, Finn.

“At first I didn’t think both kinds of poems could inhabit the same pages,” Trommer says, “and then I realized, ‘Of course, they can. Because that is what we as humans are asked to do—to inhabit worlds of great joy and great despair at the same time.’”

This heart-opening event is free, though donations for Rosemery are gratefully accepted if, like so many of her devoted readers, you have been nourished by her daily offerings. In keeping with Mythica’s tradition, a tree will be planted for every participant who registers.

Advance Paise for All the Honey

“All the Honey is an outpouring of love from a poet who understands: the world that breaks our heart is the same world that knits it together.”

-Phyllis Cole-Dai, co-editor of the popular anthology of mindfulness poems, Poetry of Presence

“What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierce openness that refuses nothing—that knows damage and healing, darkness and radiance, sorrow and winged resurgence, reflection and laughter and learning.” -Publishers Elizabeth Dilly and Steven Nightingale

All the Honey is available for purchase at Bookshop.org