Poet and organic fruit grower Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer “is a chanteuse of the heart,” says poet Art Goodtimes. She’s the appointed Poet Laureate of San Miguel County.
She has authored and edited eleven books and is widely anthologized, including Red Thread, Gold Thread: The Poet’s Voice, Come Together: Imagine Peace, The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope and What Wildness This Is: Women Write About the Southwest. Her work has also appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and in O Magazine.
In addition to writing, Rosemerry teaches public speaking for Mesa State College, performs with a poetry troupe (EAR), teaches poetry in schools, independently and 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 six-year-old Finn, two-year-old Vivian, and 27-year-old Shawnee. For ten years, Rosemerry served as director of the Telluride Writers Guild and led a poetry discussion series at the Telluride Public Library. In 2007, she and her husband, Eric, bought a 75-acre orchard and now grow organic peaches, pears, cherries, apples and apricots. Her master’s degree in English Language & Linguistics is from University of Wisconsin—Madison.
