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. (Yes is one of her favorite words … another favorite is and.) She has authored and edited eight books, including   Insatiable: Poems; The Christmas Angel Book; Suitcase of Yeses (audio CD); Charity: True Stories of Giving & Receiving; and If You Listen 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. In a laughable attempt to make the most out of life, Rosemerry teaches public speaking for Mesa State College, teaches poetry in schools, teaches with Young Audiences, writes an award-winning linguistics column for the Telluride Daily Planet, writes for magazines including Natural Home and Backpacker, sings with a 7-woman a cappella group, and is mother and step-mother to three-year-old Finn and 24-year-old Shawnee. She’s due for another baby come July, 2008. Whew. 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 poems to read, visit her website at www.wordwoman.com.