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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

  • Home
  • Meet Rosemerry
  • Hire Rosemerry
    • Poetry Playshops
    • Creative Consulting
    • Inspirational Keynotes
    • Literary Salon
    • Poetry in the Schools
  • News
  • Books
  • Presentation Schedule
  • Poetry
    • A Daily Dose of Poetry
    • Words for You
    • You the Poet
  • Podcast
  • Get in Touch
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Poetry News

  • Poetry News

    Interview on Shelter in Place

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com May 16, 2020

    Sometimes we feel as if someone else really gets us–that’s how I felt listening to this interview I did…

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  • Poetry News

    Rattlecast Interview & Reading (video)

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com May 12, 2020

    As part of Rattle’s weekly livestream video podcast, I spoke with editor Tim Green about metaphor, poetry as play,…

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  • Poetry News

    It’s About Time For a Good Time: (video) An intimate evening with Jack Ridl and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com May 1, 2020

    Join poets and friends Jack Ridl and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer as they spend an hour sharing poems back and…

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  • Poetry News

    An interview on everyday inspiration and imperfectionism

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com April 28, 2020

    The fabulous Laurie Wagner, a writer and writing teacher in the Bay Area, hosted this 20-minute interview with me…

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  • Poetry News

    How Shall We Live Now?

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com April 27, 2020

    Join Rosemerry and authors Amy Irvine and Craig Childs as the three friends explore what it is to be…

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  • Poetry News

    Knowing the Self as an Interstellar Being

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com April 24, 2020

    The gorgeous webzine Braided Way, which explores how every faith tradition is a strand in one divine braid, published…

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  • Poetry News

    What I’m Doing During the Pandemic

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com April 14, 2020

    The local news asked me to share what I’ve been doing for the pandemic. Writing poems, of course. Here…

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  • Poetry News

    Poetry in the Pandemic: A Recording of a Live Online Reading

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com April 4, 2020

    On April 3, 2020, I did an online reading with Albert Flynn DeSilver, author of Writing as a Path…

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  • Poetry News

    A Free Online Poetry Workshop for the Pandemic

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com March 25, 2020

    In this free “workshop” hosted by the Ah Haa School, I read poems by Ellen Bass, Ada Limón, William…

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  • Poetry News

    How to Meet Fear–With Friends

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com March 25, 2020

    Fear has been showing up a lot lately as the globe faces a pandemic–and yet there are ways to…

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Poetry News

  • Turning Towards Life Discusses “Saying Yes”

  • A Cinepoem on the Importance of Tenderness

  • Stubborn Praise with Naomi Shihab Nye

  • Honoring Dolly through Poetry

  • Three Poems Published in Buddhist Poetry Review

My Books

Upcoming Events

  1. Poetry Reading with Charlie & Judyth Brice

    March 3 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm MST
  2. Awakened Eye: A Poetry Playshop on Resilience (a five-class series)

    March 4 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm MST
  3. Let’s Talk Process!

    March 6 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm MST

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A Poem a Day

RSS A Hundred Falling Veils

  • Beyond Basic Biology March 2, 2021
    Now I love biology—the how oflife, the what of cell, the physiology of why—but I was so bored in ninth-grade biology classwhen Bill Williams stood at the front of the roomwith his rumpled hair and brown corduroy blazer,chalk dust on his fingers, chalk dust in his drone,chalk dust chafing on my teenage thoughts.I wanted to […]

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Praise for Rosemerry

Wow, what a great response to both your reading and workshop.

Almost with tears in their eyes. Really. I have to tell you what was most mentioned as your fans applauded you; your family life, your reactions and theirs; it felt and sounded so real and most all of us have children so we all could relate. Unforgettable, you are.

Kathy Berg
Cortez Public Library, Poetry Corner Presents
Rosemerry, thank you.

For the first time in a long time I was moved to be creative and to use writing as a tool for healing. I could feel my stagnation begin to melt away in the Light that was presented today. I’ve been freeing up some space lately and asking that it be filled with people and things that inspire me to be the best version of myself and that is exactly what happened today.

Jackie
workshop participant
Revel in your own creativity.

To participate in one of Rosemerry’s poetry playshops, or to listen to one of her beautiful presentations, is an invitation to revel in your own creativity. She welcomes her audience into a landscape of words with a generous and irrepressible spirit, and speaks with a boundless compassion. Her love of poetry reaches out and connects with her listeners, opening a space with her audience that invites them to consider themselves, and their art, and their world, in new ways. To hear Rosemerry share her poetry is a felt gift. Her listeners cannot escape being touched.

Melissa Stacey
co-founder and organizer, Writers and Scribblers Literary Retreat
I think you have shifted the consciousness of my entire client base.

For this, and many other things, I thank you. You are perhaps the most professional person I’ve ever worked with. I’m amazed.

Craig Soren Nielson
Rural Community Assistance Corporation
Insightful, energizing, and entertaining.

Rosemerry, thank you so much for your inspirational program. The members of the American Business Women’s Association in Montrose left with fresh ideas on improving their work-a-day world and smiles on their faces.

Mavis Bennett
President, American Business Women’s Association, Black Canyon Charter Chapter
Through poetry, humor & song, Rosemerry brings the room to life.

Her highly interactive approach gives each child the opportunity to become a participant in a beautiful, creative experiment. With the support of Rosemerry, children are allowed to shine, to sing, to be silly – to be themselves, and everyone in the room leaves with the knowledge that living in this space of openness is always a possibility.

Erika Gordon
Coordinator for enrichment programming, Ridgway Elementary School
An extraordinary teacher and gifted poet.

Rosemerry’s talents have helped me achieve my dream of more publication. But what is most important to me is that I have learned to write with more confidence and understand more about how to craft deeper poems about deeper subjects. I have experienced healing, safety, trust, and fun in working with Rosemerry. When I bring a poem to her, I know she will continue to find ways to help me expand my creative potential. She never runs out of great ideas.

Phyllis Klein
An amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds.

There is some kind of magic in your smile, your encouraging energy, and amazing talent to open up people’s creative minds. You have facilitated a bit of a renaissance in our building. I have felt warm, enthusiastic vibes from even some of our more reserved teachers today. Of course, the students have it now and are exuding the joy of words big time.

Vicki Phelps
4th and 6th grade science teacher, Naturita Elementary School
Rosemerry touched their hearts.

Our students and staff benefited so much from Rosemerry’s visit. In just one afternoon of writing with her, people were surprised at how much they learned about their writing and their own process. She created a safe place where people were willing to risk. And the performance: Wow. I’ll never think of a sonnet the same again. Rosemerry has a way of grabbing the audience and delivering poetry in a way that makes it feel urgent and fun. As one woman said, ‘In my work, I just touch the surface of people. Rosemerry touches their hearts.’

Ruth Hackford-Peer
Associate Director of Student Life, Adams State College
A Better Place

The world is a better place because of Trommer’s poems.

Colorado Central Magazine
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