Phyllis to Co-Host Solstice Event

“The Day the Sun Stands Still”:

A Solstice Hour of Storytelling & Poetry

An online gathering led by Phyllis, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer & James Crews
Monday, December 21, 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (Central Time)
Tickets: $15 or Pay What You Can

Pause with Phyllis, Rosemerry & James around an imaginary fire to mark the shortest day of the year. Through stories, poems, and music we’ll reflect together on this transition between seasons and celebrate the coming of the light. The evening will leave you with a renewed sense of purposes and belonging, ready for whatever challenges lie ahead.

This will be a Zoom event. Purchase tickets here.

Phyllis will co-host this event with her friends and fellow poets Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Crews. Rosemerry co-hosts “Emerging Form” (a podcast on creative process), “Stubborn Praise” (an online poetry reading series with James Crews) and “Secret Agents of Change” (a surreptitious kindness cabal). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine and Poetry of Presence, on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS Newshour, and her daily poetry blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize.

James is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird and Every Waking Moment. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, The New Republic, New York Times Magazine and The Sun, among other journals. He is also the editor of the anthologies, Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, forthcoming in April 2021. He lives with his husband in Shaftsbury, Vermont and hosts the bi-monthly show, “Stubborn Praise,” with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.