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Toni Ortner
Toni Ortner's chapbook, Focused Light from a Distant Star, is a collection of 39 ekphrastic poems and prose poems. Most were inspired by the works "created by women in the…
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Six famous women from historyNeach on a spiritual pathNtells her story from first-person point of view as the author has imagined it. For each of these women there was a…
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In Toni Ortner’s Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach, intensely lyrical poems interweave grief and love (sexual, family, even love of a pet) The voice of the poems is intimate…
Real Stories is a writing and reading text that works. The method Toni Ortner discusses is classroom-tested and designed to meet the needs of multi-cultural high school students. It contains…
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Dream in Pienza was originally published by the Timberline Press in a hand-set and hand-printed limited edition. The title poem, written in Rome, sings of the passion of unrequited love…
The chapbook is about the experience of being in a mental hospital although it could have been about being in any kind of prison. The specifics are here, and it…
The title poem, Entering Another Country, is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma…
The poems in “The Ides of March” were published in literary journals during the l970’s during the Women’s Movement, a time of consciousness raising groups. At that time Toni Ortner…
Toni Ortner’s Daybook V, Change of Season, documents the daily thoughts of the Vermont poet and writer who reflects on life in the times of COVID. Uplifting but tinted with…
This is a collection of prose and poetry portraying the many surreal ponderings on life of author Toni Ortner. It also includes the drawings and paintings of Linda Rubinstein. Both…
