<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading featuring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saturday, December 10 from 10:00 to 10:30 AM PDT </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is no charge for this event and no need to pre-register.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(35, 35, 51); color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just click this link:</span><font color="#0956b5" face="Lato, Helvetica, Arial" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85044868079?pwd=YmdvNit3UGJEMlNzVktkbnRhd2pyZz09" class="">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85044868079?pwd=YmdvNit3UGJEMlNzVktkbnRhd2pyZz09</a></span></font></div><div class=""><span id="displayPassword" class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">and enter this passcode</span><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">:160111</strong></div><div class=""><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></strong></div><div class=""><strong class="hideme" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; color: rgb(35, 35, 51); font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado, on the banks of the wild and undammed San Miguel River. She served as San Miguel County’s first poet laureate (2007-2011) and as Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate in 2019.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Devoted to helping others explore their creative potential, Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process , co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal), and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle. She also directed the Telluride Writers Guild for ten years and co-hosted Telluride’s Talking Gourds Poetry Club.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She teaches and performs poetry for mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers, addiction recovery programs, scientists, hospice, literary burlesque and more. Clients include Camp Coca Cola, Craig Hospital, Business & Professional Women, Deepak Chopra, Think 360, Ah Haa School, Desert Dharma, Well for the Journey, and the Women’s Dermatological Society.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She performs as a storyteller, including shows in Aspen at the Wheeler Opera House, at the Taos Storytelling Festival and the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. Her TEDx talk explores changing our outdated metaphors.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She believes in the power of practice and has been writing a poem a day since 2006. Her daily poems can be found at <a href="https://ahundredfallingveils.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(206, 143, 64); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;" class="">https://ahundredfallingveils.com/</a>. Favorite themes in her poems include parenting, gardening, ecology, love, science, thriving/failure, grief and daily life.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She has 12 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry</span>, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around town. Her poems have been used for choral works by composers Paul Fowler and Jeffrey Nytch and performed around America. Her most recent collection, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Hush</span>, won the Halcyon prize. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Naked for Tea</span> was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Other books include <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Even Now, The Miracle Already Happening, The Less I Hold </span>and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">If You Listen</span>, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In April 2023, Samara Press will release her next collection, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">All the Honey.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She’s won the Fischer Prize, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Rattle’</span>s Ekphrastic Challenge (thrice), the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest (twice) and The Blackberry Peach Prize. She’s anthologized in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">Poetry of Presence, How to Love the World</span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class="">The Path to Kindness, Send My Roots Rain, What Wildness Is This, Come Together: Imagine Peace </span>and<span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: italic;" class=""> To Love One Another.</span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.8; font-family: "pt serif", serif; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(247, 244, 237); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">She’s been an organic fruit grower, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a parent educator for Parents as Teachers. She’s now writing a novel. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. One-word mantra: Adjust. 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