2023 Teachers
Rosemerry Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer “is a chanteuse of the heart,” says poet Art Goodtimes. She served two terms as the first poet laureate for San Miguel County, Colorado, where she still leads monthly poetry readings, teaches in schools, leads writing workshops and leaves poems written on rocks around the town.
She has authored and edited thirteen books, most of them poetry. The most recent collection, The Less I Hold, comes out of her poem-a-day practice, which she has been doing for over seven years. Other collections include The Miracle Already Happening, a chapbook of poems in which the Sufi mystic Rumi keeps showing up in daily life—the kindergarten classroom, the kitchen, even the Walmart parking lot. And Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners in Poetry & Photography is a collaboration with photographer Claude Steelman. Her work has also appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and in O Magazine, on tie-dyed scarves, alleyway fences and in her children’s lunchboxes.
In addition to writing, Rosemerry leads writing workshops for hospice, addiction recovery programs, women’s groups, schools, libraries, teachers and people who think they hate poetry. She performs with a poetry troupe (EAR), sings with a 7-woman a cappella group, and for more than 15 years she has led a poetry discussion series on contemporary American poets and international sacred voices. She is mother to Finn and Vivian, and stepmother to Shawnee. For the last six years, she and her husband were organic fruit growers, but they recently left the life of agriculture. She now works part time for Parents As Teachers. Her master’s degree in English Language & Linguistics is from University of Wisconsin—Madison.
Visit her website at www.wordwoman.com for ideas about writing.
And you can read her daily poems at http://ahundredfallingveils.com
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen is the founder of Power of Poetry and Wellspring of Imagination. He is a retired teacher, naturalist and adventure traveler. Alan has put together two anthologies of poetry - Red Thread Gold Thread and Follow the Thread.
Paul Knoop
Paul Knoop is the premiere naturalist in the state of Ohio. He served as director of the Aullwood Audubon Center for his entire career. Paul's enthusiasm for the natural world is contagious. Being with him in the woods is an experience to treasure.
Jon Lee
Jon D. Lee was born and raised in the hot, dry Southwest, and in many ways the exsiccated arroyos and cicada skins have never really rubbed off, despite a six-year stint in the wintry wildernesses of Canada where he regularly faced nineteen-foot-high snowdrifts and learned the value of a fully stocked cellar. In the midst of all that he’s racked up two decades in the classroom, teaching students from every major inhabited continent, and has published two books of poetry and one academic monograph on how disease narratives both shape and are shaped by public perception of epidemics.
Lee’s Pushcart-nominated poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Writer's Chronicle, Connecticut River Review, The Laurel Review, The Inflectionist Review, and Oregon Literary Review. He has an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University, and a PhD in Folklore. He teaches at Suffolk University, and spends his spare time with his wife and children.
Uche Ogbuji
Uche is an Igbo-American immigrant from Nigeria, settled near Boulder, Colorado with my wife, three sons and daughter. Restless mind in a restless body, I do a million things without getting very much truly done, but most notably in two areas.
Oh yeah, and also as a classicist Africanist cum Hip-hopper, traveler, language lover, snowboarder, martial artist, soccer player, and of course Gooner.
Evie Adelman
Evie Adelman is a psychologist, classical pianist, collage artist and bicycle maniac. Evie is trained in the Orff system of teaching, an intuitive and powerful method of involving people in music. She is a classical pianist and collage artist.
Evie has been facilitating an expressive arts group for almost 20 years. Her enthusiasm is contageous.
