Evolving in the Wonderment with Visiting Scholar Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has written and shared a poem a day since 2006. Her daily poems can be found on her blog A Hundred Falling Veils. A curated version is available on her daily audio series The Poetic Path on the Ritual app. Her new book of poems The Wonderment (Wildhouse Poetry 2026) is available at booksellers everywhere.
Meet and hear more from Rosemerry at three events in January 2027.
Exploring the Wonder of It All: An Evening of Poetry and Music
Join us for an evening of poetry, song, piano, and storytelling with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, accompanied by pianist Kayleen Asbo. Kayleen is composing four original pieces for the four gates of wonder Rosemerry identifies in her new book The Wonderment—The Opening, The Noticing, The Deepening, and The Belonging.
Inhabiting the Wonderment
In this poetry playshop, join winter 2027 Visiting Scholar Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to steep ourselves in what is here, inviting other perspectives and using all our senses to explore our aliveness. Our time together will include self-reflective writing, reading and conversing about poems, guided invitations to launch into poetic explorations of your own, conversations about process, and optional sharing.
Evolving in the Wonderment
Join winter 2027 Visiting Scholar Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Host Rabbi Irwin Keller to talk about her new poetry, new book of poems The Wonderment (Wildhouse Poetry 2026), and the worldview that inspires her work and creativity.
Explore Listening to the Land with Visiting Scholar Melissa K. Nelson
As an Anishinaabe ecologist, Commonweal New School’s fall 2026 Visiting Scholar Melissa Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science. Meet Melissa, join the conversation, and find out more about her worldview in this course.
Comparing Religions
In part 12 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey J. Kripal about his book Comparing Religions: The Study of Us That Changes Us, a comprehensive guide to the comparative study of religion in the 21st century.
The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges | Part 2
As an Anishinaabe ecologist, Commonweal New School’s fall Visiting Scholar Melissa Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science. Meet Melissa and find out more about her worldview at this event—first in conversation with Host Jaune Evans, and then in an experiential process around her new work.
The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges | Part 1
As an Anishinaabe ecologist, Commonweal New School’s fall Visiting Scholar Melissa Nelson is working to find ways to return to and revitalize the Indigenous and feminist roots of science. Meet Melissa and find out more about her worldview at this event—first in conversation with Host Jaune Evans, and then in an experiential process around her new work.
Trust in the Life Forces of Unity
Join us as we welcome back visionary healer and community leader Orland Bishop for a conversation in ritual space with Host Jaune Evans.