Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Saturday
March 20, 2010
10 am - 4 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
March 16, 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!
Why not become
the one
who lives
with the full moon
in each
eye?
—Hafiz
What path are you on?
For thousands of years, the path has been a popular metaphor for understanding our journey through life. Cavafy advises us to “pray that the road is long.” Frost suggests we “take the road less traveled by.” A.R. Ammons advocates that we “hoist our burdens, get on down the road.” How we choose to walk on our path affects all we are connected to. And are we not connected to everything? Through the practices of writing, reading and paying attention—or as Rumi would say, opening the sail—we divine who we are in the world.
This six-hour reading and writing workshop will focus on exploring the use of images and how these are used to engage with the landscape, the imagination and the reader. Through our choice of images, we frame the path we’re on.
No previous writing experience necessary.
COST:
Weehawken Members: $93 if enrolling and paying by or before March 12th /$102 after February March 12th
Non-Members: $102 if enrolling and paying by or before March 12th /$112 after March 12th
Student Supply List
*Bring Writing materials
*Bring a Sack Lunch and any snacks or beverages of your liking
