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Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is, like Wordwoman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. And like Rosemerry, is brilliant and very very quirky. Witness his riff on 2013,  a tip of the hat to Voltaire and a...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...

Editor’s note: Telluride Inside… and Out’s monthly column, Tall Tales, is so named because contributor Mark Stevens is one long drink of water. He is also long on talent. Mark is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan,” both on the shelves...

Telluride, Colorado and Hue, Vietnam: one more link in a chain that originated in our box canyon but extends around the globe. Sunday, December 30, 5 p.m. Between the Covers Bookstore features "Timeless Vietnam," a photo collection of the region, with an introduction by folksinger (and...

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...

Editor’s Note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. Usually the edgiest, often the darkest member of our family of fabulous writers/poets, including Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and “Feelasophy”...

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...

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,...

[caption id="attachment_25797" align="alignright" width="300"] Verano by river with Squash Blossoms, by his wife Nancy Branyas[/caption] How does gnocchi with braised short ribs sauce sound? Does a roasted chicken limone appeal? Want to know how to make a bona fide Caesar salad? Ask a lawyer. Not just any lawyer. Ask...

Editor’s note:  Year after year, the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, has designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. And it just earned its fifth star in a row, which puts The Wilkinson Public Library into an elite club...