Rhythm, Words, & Wonder: Afternoon Workshops
DATE: Weds., April 1, 2026
Noon – 1:15 p.m. (MT) WORKSHOP:
Living the Ridiculously Creative and Curious Life with poet and artist Wendy Videlock. In this generative workshop Wendy will show the joys and benefits of doodling, scribbling notes and playing with language in order to find meaning through music. Each attendee will come away with a new poem or short story. No experience necessary.
Wide-Open Listening: Where Nature Meets Human Nature with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. How do we deepen our relationship with the world around us? Using metaphor as a tool and wonderment as a practice, we’ll explore how poetry can build a bridge between the landscapes of our inner world and the landscapes we inhabit. As Mary Oliver says, “The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you … over and over.” Poems help us hear the call and meet it with our attention. We’ll read, write, discuss process, and, if you wish, share. For writers, non-writers, people who think they hate poetry and those who see it everywhere they turn.
ABOUT Wendy Videlock: Award winning poet Wendy Videlock’s syndicated newspaper column appears across the four-corner states. She is the recipient of the Keats Soul Making Prize, The Cantor Prize, the Fischer Prize and the AMP and PBTS Sonnet Prizes. Her poems and essays appear in Hudson Review, Poetry Magazine, O Magazine, The NY Times, Best American Poetry, Rattle, ALP and elsewhere. Wendy hosts a radio show, directs several literary programs and advocates for the arts in schools and public spaces. She is also a visual artist whose work is featured in galleries across the region. Her books are available where books are sold and include Nevertheless, Wise to the West, and Slingshots & Love Plums. Wendy continues to believe that poetry might just be the answer to all that ails us. She lives just outside Palisade at the foot of Thunder Mountain. She currently serves as poet laureate of the Western Slope. For more visit: Wendy Videlock
ABOUT Rosemerry Wahtola-Trommer: Rosemerry lives in Southwest Colorado with her husband and daughter. 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, The Miracle Already Happening: Everyday life with Rumi, Intimate Landscape. Her newest collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. She travels widely to perform and teach for clients such as Think 360, the National Storytelling Festival, Eremos, Camp Coca Cola, The Mission in Santa Barbara, Taos Poetry Festival, Business and Professional Women, Omega Institute and more. She loves co-leading retreats that combine poetry with meditation, art, and play therapy. She co-hosts Emerging Form–a podcast on creative process, and co-founded Secret Agents of Change–a group devoted to surreptitious acts of kindness. For more visit: https://ahundredfallingveils.com/
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