Conversations in Poetry

In early 2025, I launched a series of Zoom conversations with my favorite poets to read our work to each other, using the theme of the reading as a loose guide for which poems we share. Interspersed with the readings, an informal conversation unfolds in response to the poems, with plenty of open time for participant questions and discussion.

About Rosemerry: Rosemerry is the author of 15 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around town. Her poems have been used for choral works by composers Paul Fowler and Jeffrey Nytch and performed around America. Her 2020 collection, Hush, won the Halcyon prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Other books include Even Now, The Less I Hold and If You Listen, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In 2023 she released All the Honey; Beneath All Appearances an Unwavering Peace (a book for grieving parents with artist Rashani Réa); a book of writing prompts, Exploring Poetry of Presence II; and Dark Praise, a spoken word album with Steve Law. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (thrice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice) and The Blackberry Peach Prize. She’s widely anthologized including Poetry of Presence, How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, Send My Roots Rain, Come Together: Imagine Peace, Dawn Songs, and To Love One Another.

She has been writing a poem a day since 2006, posting them since 2011 on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. Favorite themes include parenting, gardening, ecology, love, science, thriving/failure, grief and daily life.