Emerging Form Podcast
1) Episode 156: Chris Duffy Wrote a Book, and Guess What? It's Hilarious and Awesome
“The least dangerous humor is to make fun of yourself and your foibles,” says comedian Chris Duffy. How might such a sense of humor help jumpstart and nourish your creative life? In this episode of Em...Show More
2) Episode 155: Emerging Form Guests Share Their Words for 2026
After our end of the year episode, in which we talked about the words we had chosen as our theme for the year, we asked a bunch of Emerging Form guests to tell us their word. We were overwhemed by the...Show More
3) Episode 154: Christie & Rosemerry Look Back on 2025
It’s the sixth annual epiphany episode! Join Rosemerry and Christie as we look back on the highs and lows of their own creative practices in 2025, and reflect on the intentions we set a year ago. Did ...Show More
4) Episode 153: Todd Mitchell on How a Breakdown Led to a Breakthrough
“I had to reassess how I approached creativity and life in general,” says author Todd Mitchell. In this episode of Emerging Form, we speak with the award-winning author about how to re-envision our cr...Show More
5) Episode 152: Julia Belluz on How to Have A Happy Collaboration
“There are enough talented people out there,” says Julia Belluz, “but only collaborate with people you really like.” This was the advice the writer followed when deciding to work with scientist Kevin ...Show More
6) Episode 151: Alison Luterman on Striving
“I’m a striver,” poet Alison Luterman, “still striving to grow.” In this interview with the beloved poet, we follow up on our conversation from episode 64 “It’s Okay to Not Feel Talented, Keep Going A...Show More
7) Episode 150 Bonus: The Medicine of Surrender, Poetry, and Metaphor With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Can poetry be a form of medicine? In this week’s bonus episode, we share a guest podcast, the Wise Effort Show, hosted by our recent guest Dr. Diana Hill. In the bonus episode she did with Emerging Fo...Show More
8) Updated Episode 150: Filling the Well
How do we take care of our creative selves? How do we step off the wheel of production and find ourselves in the wide-open moment with room to wonder and wander? In this episode, hosts Rosemerry Wahto...Show More
9) Episode 149: Diana Hill on Genius Energy
Everyone has creative genius, says Diana Hill, PhD, and in her new book, Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, she explores how to best explore and nurture that genius. We...Show More
10) Episode 148: David Baron on Torturous First Drafts and the Pleasures of Historical Research
“The first draft is absolute torture,” says historical nonfiction writer David Baron. And yet, he persists and his newest book, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the...Show More