Robert Frost wrote: “The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he will never get over it.” Frost didn’t know he was referring to your poem. Watch her TEDx talk The Art of Changing Metaphors: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer TEDx Paonia Her MA is in English Language and Linguistics.

You can sign up for the daily emails here. Since 2011, she’s posted those poems on this site and also sends them out daily to her mailing list. Since 2006, she’s maintained a poem-a-day practice. Rosemerry performs with Telluride’s eight-woman a cappella group, Heartbeat, and sings more often (and more publicly) than her children wish she would. She has been a satsang student of Joi Sharp since 2010. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate, directed the Telluride Writers Guild for 10 years, co-directs the Talking Gourds Poetry Club, co-hosts Emerging Form–a podcast on creative process, and co-founded Secret Agents of Change–a group devoted to surreptitious acts of kindness. She loves co-leading retreats that combine poetry with meditation, art, and play therapy. She travels widely to perform and teach for clients such as Think 360, the National Storytelling Festival, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Camp Coca Cola, The Mission in Santa Barbara, Taos Poetry Festival, wForum, and Business and Professional Women. In April, 2023, Samara Press will publish her newest collection, All the Honey. Her poetry collections include Hush (winner of the Halcyon Prize for poetry of human ecology), Naked for Tea (finalist in the Able Muse Book Award), Even Now, The Less I Hold, T he Miracle Already Happening: Everyday life with Rumi, Intimate Landscape and Holding Three Things at Once(Colorado Book Award finalist). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS News Hour, in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” on stage at Carnegie Hall, in back alleys and on river rocks. She served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019).

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her husband and daughter.

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