Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Listed in the Western Reflections author directory.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is an American poet associated with Colorado. Our author directory lists her, but no book under her name is on record in our catalogue yet, so this page rests on outside sources and says only what they support.
About Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
According to Wikipedia, Trommer earned a bachelor's degree in English from Colorado College in 1992 and a master's degree in English language and linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. She served as Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado, from 2006 to 2010, and the Telluride Institute named her Poet Laureate of Colorado's Western Slope for 2015 to 2017.
The same article lists a run of poetry collections from 2000 to 2024. Among them is If You Listen: Poems and Photographs of the San Juan Mountains, dated 2000 and credited to Western Reflections Press, with photographer Eileen Benjamin. That book is not in our current library data under her name, which may explain why her directory entry shows no books. Her later collections name other publishers, including Hush in 2020 and The Unfolding in 2024.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is listed in the Western Reflections author directory and the books under this name are not yet on the site. If this is your page, send us the details and we will add them. In the meantime, the library carries the rest of the catalogue, from regional history to memoir and fiction.
What the books share
Going by the names in her Wikipedia list, some of her collections pair poems with photographs or drawings of a place: the San Juan Mountains in If You Listen, and the Four Corners region in Intimate Landscape, made with photographer Claude Steelman. We have not read these books for this page, so we say nothing further about their content.
Next steps for readers of this author
Starting with a free poem
If you've never read her, her blog is the lowest effort way in. Pick any post, read it aloud once, and decide whether her collections are worth tracking down.
Hunting for If You Listen
Wikipedia dates this San Juan Mountains collection to 2000 and credits Western Reflections Press, but we haven't confirmed it from our records. Try a library catalog or used book search, or write to us on the contact page.
Finding a reading near you
Poetry events change often. The Academy of American Poets search is a way to check what's on in Colorado, and her own news page lists her upcoming appearances.
Go deeper
Our catalogue has no book under her name, so these are places to meet her work and Colorado poetry directly: her own sites and two public pages on poetry events and the state laureate program.
Word Woman, her official site
Her website describes her as a poet, teacher and storyteller and carries news items about books, events and podcasts.
A Hundred Falling Veils
Her blog, whose tagline is that there's a poem in every day. Its front page shows recent posts with dates.
Poetry Near You, Academy of American Poets
Lets you search by state for poetry events, literary organizations and poetry friendly bookstores, and learn about poets laureate in your area.
Colorado Poet Laureate
The state's program page. It says the Governor chooses the laureate, who advocates for poetry, literacy and literature at readings and events.
Good to know
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