Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

The Miracle Already Happening: Everyday Life with Rumi
Liquid Light Press

From Rosemerry herself ...
What would happen if a Sufi mystic showed up in your kitchen? Or at your son’s elementary school choir concert? Or in your garden? In this playful chapbook, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has poetic conversations with Rumi through his translations by Daniel Ladinsky and Coleman Barks and through her imagination. Whimsical and humble, these are poems of discovery, praise, and unlearning, invitations to find holiness in every moment, every place. Even Walmart.

"A rare treat: a rigorous conversation with the past made fresh by vulnerability, playfulness, humor and knockout surprise. There is so much integrity here, and discipline, and grace. And restraint, and cutting loose all at once. All this in poems that can be surrounded by a great quietness. The sensation can be like listening for birdsong, and having the bird silently and suddenly land on your shoulder. If you don't fall over, you will shout or laugh."  - Peter Heller, author of Kook and The Whale Warriors

Join us and this former San Miguel County Poet Laureate in celebrating her new book ... It's Apres Ski with Rosemerry and Rumi!