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Telluride's Between the Covers Bookstore and Wilkinson Public Library present another installment of their ongoing collaboration, “Authors Uncovered.” Featured are Betsy Gaines Quammen and David Quammen in a virtual conversation. The topic is "Social Justice in a Time of Pandemic." The event takes place Thursday,...

In the Age of Corona nothing is guaranteed except change: for better (we hope)  – or for worse (please no). Telluride’s Word Woman Rosemerry Trommer, who comments on the pandemic and its progeny regularly, is almost always on the side of the light, of hope....

SPARKy Productions is a Telluride-based non-profit that focuses on local social issues through a creative performing lens in a variety of mediums: theater, film, music and dance. Founder Jennie Franks believes engaging audiences through the arts creates a stronger community. On Wednesday, March 25, 5:30...

History.com offers up "6 Surprising Facts About Valentine's Day," including the fact that St. Valentine was likely more than one person and that a medieval English poet might have invented Cupid's Big Day. "The medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer often took liberties with history, placing his...

Cupid’s Day has evolved into the signature day of the year when a gift of any kind ought to express positive sentiments within a primary relationship of any kind: married or partnered, straight or gay – or the one with yourself. Yes, Valentine's Day seems...

Telluride's Word Woman and one of the region's most beloved and honored poets and teachers, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer was featured in The Colorado Sun. The focus of the interview was her latest book, "Naked for Tea," which is available at Between the Covers bookstore (where...

Ed Brummel of Salida and the student winners of the Retta Award are featured at the January Talking Gourds Poetry Club, a Telluride Institute initiative. Reading takes place Tuesday January 14., 6 p.m,. at Telluride Arts HQ. Free and open to all. For more info on the student...

It's around the corner. A new year approaching right on schedule. So we start making resolutions in the hope that life will be different (and better). Truth is nothing is guaranteed except change: for better  – or for worse – new is the only given....

With her poem (below), Rosemerry Trommer transcends the canned rhetoric of the holidaze and goes straight to the the true reason for the season. For many, Xmas is a period for the renewal of faith, but it also also a time for personal reflection. What...