TELLURIDE – Join poets and longtime friends Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Jim Tipton tonight when they read from their new works at 6 p.m. at the Ah Haa School.

San Miguel County poet laureate Trommer, who lives on an organic orchard in Dominguez Canyon during the summer, has most recently released Intimate Landscape: The Four Corners Region in Poetry & Photographs. Through poems and photographs, Trommer and photographer Claude Steelman journey to mountains and deserts, icefalls and aspen forests, resonant canyons and silent fields. Another recent book of Trommer’s poetry, Holding Three Things at Once, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award.

Tipton lives in Chapala, Jalisco, in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico. His new collection of haiku, Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror, was recently published; his Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo, a collection of short poems about Mexico and Latin America, was recently published in a bilingual edition.

Trommer and Tipton, both adept performers, bring heart and humor from the page to the present. For poetry lovers and skeptics alike, this evening promises to help find the pleasure in being here now.

“This will be a gorgeous vacation, like a trip to a far away place, if only for an evening.” says Telluride Writers Guild Director Amy Cannon. “Rosemerry Trommer and Jim Tipton will bring a sense of openness and beauty with their performance.”

Tickets are $15 for this Telluride Writers Guild event, is sponsored by a generous grant from CCAASE. For more information call Cannon at 970/728-6467.