Editor’s note: Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring moms and motherhood in general, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly on a specific day in March or May. My dad used to say Mother’s Day was every day, not…
Poetry slam celebrating women takes place at Arroyo on Tuesday Front Range poet Julie Cummings will be the featured guest performer at the regular first-Tuesday-of-the-month meeting of the Talking Gourds Poetry Club. Hosted at Arroyo Telluride on Tuesday, March 5, 6 p.m., the informal gathering will focus on the theme of the San Miguel Resource…
Editor’s note: “A Gift for You My Heart Would Bring” is one of many love poems written by a woman who is clearly in love with life, loved and loving. The poem is part of a series Telluride Inside… and Out is putting up for Valentine’s Day, featuring the words of regional artists such as…
Editor’s note: Did you know that that Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare’s lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine’s Day? We continue with our series of poems for Valentine’s Day with another poem by Art Goodtimes and one more from Word Woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Rosemerry is…
Editor’s note: Cynics insist Valentine’s Day is the day men atone for their ignorance by buying sweethearts toasters and scant silky undergarments and women make desperate attempts to put the magic back into relationships by swooning over professional basketball. The rest of the world, however, seems to swallow the softer, gentler notion of the holiday…
Editor’s note. No matter how darn organized you are, likely there is at least one person on your Christmas shopping list who has stopped you dead in your (very tired by now) tracks. Or some stocking that is not stuffed full enough. Google “last minute Xmas gifts” and 100s of ideas show up, among my…
Editor’s note: The seasonal significance of the winter solstice, also described as “the longest night”, “the shortest day” or “the first day of winter,” is the gradual lengthening of days and shortening of nights. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the time at which the sun is at its southernmost point in the…
Editor’s note: Almost all of us have been following the aftermath of the massacre in a Connecticut school. Newtown is our town. Their kids, our kids. The following is a response from our favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, whose poetry, including her latest book, #13, “The Less I Hold,” can be found at Between the…
Editor’s note: Our favorite Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, goes straight to the heart of what Thanksgiving is all about with her message of gratitude for more than stuffing and gravy. For love. (Rosemerry’s books of poems are carried at Between the Covers Bookstore, Telluride.) To Everyone I Love: What I am trying to say is…
Editor’s note: Wordwoman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer eschews the straight line from A to B, choosing to ’round the mulberry bush with this very quirky reminder for the Thanksgiving holiday. (Rosemerry’s books of poems are carried at Between the Covers Bookstore, Telluride.) In Praise of the Automatic Nervous System There once was a woman who sat…