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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 00:00

Come out this Thursday evening at 6 p.m. for a special poetry reading at Paonia Library. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and James Tipton are bringing their "Hearts at Work: A Poetry Duet" to Paonia.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and daughter, Vivian

Trommer is a dual resident of Delta County, where she is an organic fruit grower, and Placerville. Tipton is formerly of Fruita and now lives in Mexico. Trommer says their separate works are "upbeat, lighthearted, and life-afﬁrming." Trommer's website says she "uses poetry to help people fall more deeply in love with the world and their lives." She's the Poet Laureate of San Miguel County. She has authored and edited 11 books, including "Intimate Landscape," "Holding Three Things at Once"-a ﬁnalist for the Colorado Book Award and "If You Listen"- winner of the Colorado Independent Press Association poetry award.

In addition to being a poet, Trommer is a teacher. Her subjects include public speaking for Mesa State College and poetry in schools. She writes an award-winning linguistics column for the Telluride Daily Planet, and sings with a seven-woman a cappella group. For 10 years, Trommer was the director of the Telluride Writers Guild.

The last two years Trommer and her husband, have grown peaches, pears, cherries, nectarines, apples and apricots on their 70-acre organic orchard. She is mother and step-mother to four-year-old Finn, one-year-old Vivian, and 25-year-old Shawnee.

James Tipton

James Tipton lives in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico, where this former Fruita resident writes poetry and enjoys village life. His work is widely published, including credits in The Nation, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Greensboro Review, Esquire, Field, International Poetry Review, Modern English Tanka, Atlas Poetica, Christian Science Monitor, Quaker Life, Modern Haiku, Mountain Gazette, American Literary Review, El Ojo del Lago, Lake Chapala Review, Living at Lake Chapala, and more. He is proliﬁc with his work also included in a number of anthologies and translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Danish and Norwegian.

His collection of poems, "Letters from a Stranger," won the 1999 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His collection of haiku, "Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror," was recently published by Modern English Tanka Press, and "Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo" is his collection of "short poems about Mexico and Latin America." His bi-lingual collection of tanka, ﬁve-line poems in the Japanese tradition, "All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraíso," was published by Modern English Tanka Press this year.

Tipton is currently completing a chapbook of poetry in the ecstatic tradition, "To Love for a Thousand Years" and a collection of short stories about expatriates in Mexico, tentatively titled "Three Tamales for the Señor."

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