Our Teachers & Poets
Rosemerry Trommer
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives with her husband and daughter in Placerville, Colorado. She teaches and performs poetry for mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers, addiction recovery programs, scientists, hospice, literary burlesque and more. Her TEDx talk explores changing our outdated metaphors. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process.
Rosemerry has been writing a poem a day since 2006, posting them since 2011 on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils <click to open. She has 16 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on river rocks she leaves around.
One-word mantra: Adjust. Three-word mantra: I’m still learning.
Learn more at: www.wordwoman.com
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.
As a poet and editor
As a computer engineer, entrepreneur and technology educator
Oh yeah, and also as a classicist Africanist cum Hip-hopper, traveler, language lover, snowboarder, martial artist, soccer player, and of course Gooner.
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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 contagious.
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.