Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Organic fruit grower, poet and linguist Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is mother to a newborn, toddler, and stepmother to a grad student. For poems and publications, visit wordwoman.com.

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Location: Southwest Colorado

Is it possible to pursue your own passions and be an engaged mother to three? Poet, linguist and organic fruit grower Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer does her best to answer yes. She has authored and edited nine books, including Holding Three Things at Once: Poems (Turkey Buzzard Press, 2008), which is presently a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Other books include Insatiable: Poems (Sisu Press), The Christmas Angel Book (Red Rock Press) Suitcase of Yeses (audio CD, Sisu Press); Charity: True Stories of Giving & Receiving (Red Rock Press) and If You Listen (Western Reflections) winner of the Colorado Independent Press Association poetry award. She’s widely anthologized, including The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope, What Wildness This Is: Women Write About the Southwest, and Improv: An Anthology of Colorado Poets. She was recently re-appointed Poet Laureate of San Miguel County

Rosemerry teaches public speaking for Mesa State College, teaches poetry in schools, teaches with Think 360, writes an award-winning linguistics column for the Telluride Daily Planet, sings with a 7-woman a cappella group, and is mother and step-mother to infant Vivian, four-year-old Finn and 25-year-old Shawnee. In 2007, she and her husband, Eric, bought a 70-acre orchard and now grow organic peaches, pears, cherries, nectarines, apples and apricots. Her master’s degree in English Language & Linguistics is from University of Wisconsin—Madison. For ideas about writing exercises, how to talk to your inner critic, ways to inspire your muse and for poems to read, visit her website at http://www.wordwoman.com/.