Pueblo -- Award-winning poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will perform as part of Colorado State University-Pueblo's 10th Annual Evening of Women's Poetry at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 11 in the Occhiato University Center Hearthwell Lounge. The public is invited to this celebration of Women's History Week sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, the English Department, the University Library, the Hungry Eye literary magazine, the Office of Student Life, the Provost's Office, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Winners of this year's Women's Poetry contest will be announced as part of a reception in honor of all poets who submitted contest entries.

Wahtola Trommer directs the Telluride Writers Guild, writes a bi-weekly column on language, freelances for numerous magazines, and sings with a female a cappella choir, but she devotes most of her time to writing, teaching, reading, and sharing poetry. Her poetry works include her three-time award winning book If You Listen (Western Reflections, 2000) and an audio CD, The Nature of Love (ARPIPE Records, 2002). She is the editor of Charity: True Stories of Giving & Receiving (Red Rock Press, 2001), and her work is featured in Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope (Conundrum Press, 1998). Two new poetry collections, Insatiable (Sisu Press, 2003) and The Christmas Candle Book, (Red Rock Press, 2003) will be published this year.

Trommer earned an MA in English Language & Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin. She founded a monthly writers in the schools program, leads a semi-annual poetry discussion series originally sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is an assistant editor for Madblood literary journal, and a judge for the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards. She also volunteers in the local high school mentorship program and works on boards for the Sparrows Performance Poetry Festival and the Ah Haa School for the Arts.

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