Prompts for Writing in the Pandemic? I did a live class for the Ah Haa School, and here you can watch the recording. What Is the Role of Poetry in the Pandemic? On April 3, 2020, I did an online reading with Albert Flynn DeSilver and explored this. ![]() How Shall We Live Now? Here I read with authors Amy Irvine and Craig Childs It’s About Time for a Good Time: A reading and conversation with poet Jack Ridl On Play, Daily Poeming, Metaphor & More: An interview & reading on Rattlecast Gateway to the Unknown: A free 40-minute poetry prompt class Stubborn Praise: A reading with Rosemerry, James Crews and Danusha Laméris SHYFT in Perspective: A 40-minute poetry prompt class on resilience She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. She’s been an organic fruit grower, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a parent educator for Parents as Teachers. She also sings nightly while making dinner.įavorite activities: Trail running, Nordic skiing, recovering from trail running, camping, baking, knitting, reading, gardening. Since 1994, she’s been singing with Telluride’s 8-member female acapella group Heartbeat, performing jazz, folk, bluegrass and pop songs around the Four Corners region. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge (four times), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice), The Blackberry Peach Prize, and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Other books include Even Now, The Miracle Already Happening, The Less I Hold (a finalist for the Colorado Book Award) and If You Listen (winner of the EVVY Award). Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize. Her poems have been used for choral works by composers Paul Fowler and Jeffrey Nytch and performed by the Ars Nova Singers. com and in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” on fences, in back alleys and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around town. ![]() She has twelve poetry collections, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS News Hour, in Rattle. ![]() Favorite themes in her poems include parenting, gardening, the natural world, love, science, thriving/failure and daily life. She believes in the power of practice and has been writing a poem a day since 2006. Her TEDx talk explores changing our outdated metaphors. She performs as a storyteller, including shows in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House, at the Taos Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Past clients include Camp Coca Cola, Craig Hospital, Business & Professional Women, Deepak Chopra, Think 360, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Desert Dharma, Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride Literary Burlesque and Colorado Mesa State University. She teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers and more. She also directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years. In 2019 she was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate.ĭevoted to helping others explore their creative potential, Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process (with Christie Aschwanden), co-director of Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club (with Art Goodtimes) and co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (with Sherry Richert Belul). ![]() She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017). Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and two children in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River.
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