Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
5 Wednesdays
March 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2010
11 am - 1 pm
Weehawken Ridgway
(153 US Hwy 550, Unit 201 A&B – Next to the Galloping Goose, Above Ridgway Outdoor Experience)
About the Instructor:
Guiding you on this wondersome journey is poet and organic fruit grower Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Poet Laureate of San Miguel County. Driven by love of language, land and life, she has had a poem-a-day practice for many years. She teaches creative writing for Think 360, The Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado and Camp Coca Cola, and for ten years she served as director of the Telluride Writers Guild. Her books include Holding Three Things at Once, finalist for the Colorado Book Award, Insatiable, If You Listen, winner of the Colorado Independent Press Association Poetry Award,and Suitcase of Yeses, an audio CD. Her most recent release, Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners in Poetry & Photography reads like a guidebook on how to fall more deeply in love with the world. She earned her master’s degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. All of her books, plus many ideas for writing and editing and publishing your own work, are available at www.wordwoman.com
Call WCA at (970) 318-0150 or Register
February 26, 2010
The "go" date is the date at which WCA determines whether there are enough students or not to run the class. If this is a class you are interested in, please be sure to enroll before the "Go" date (and encourage your friends to do so as well) so that we can be sure to run the class! We will notify you at the end of the business day on the "GO" date if the class is to be cancelled so that you can make other plans for that date, but ideally, we'll see you at the class!
How do we connect with the world around us?
The downfall of human society, said French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, will stem from our disconnect with the world around us. More recently, Albert Einstein noted, “The field is the only reality.” Poets, too, have been exploring this concept for centuries—how do we connect the world around us? Our survival depends on the answer— all the more reason to be paying attention! In this five-week poetry discussion series we’ll read five contemporary American poets: Mary Oliver, Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirschfield, Naomi Shihab-Nye and Louise Glück, and explore how they link the external “field” with what happens inside of us—creating connections between outer landscapes and inner emotional landscapes. What kind of impact can this awareness have on our lives? How might we carry this awareness with us as we engage in the world?
COST:
Weehawken Members: $125 if enrolling and paying by or before February 24th /$138 after February 24th
Non-Members: $138 if enrolling and paying by or before February 24th /$145 after February 24th
Student Supply List
*Bring Writing materials
*Bring a Sack Lunch and any snacks or beverages of your liking
