by Toni Ortner | Jul 14, 2020 | Books
Prose poems on memory, inner and outer landscapes, musings of all kinds, lyrical but rooted in the present tense, interwoven with observations, mysterious thresholds between reality and the imagination, even imagination as reality, with a blending of past present and...
by Toni Ortner | Aug 25, 2019 | Books
From the Back Cover The writing in Toni Ortner’s Daybook I is lyrical but rooted in present tense, observations deeply felt. It consists of spiritual musings, political musings, musings about Life. The writing is unselfconscious, but finely hewn. Many of the passages,...
by Toni Ortner | Oct 25, 2018 | Books
In End Rhymes for End Times Toni Ortner uses a wide variety of genres to dazzle the reader. She addresses the urgent issues of our times, history, and visions of the future. In “Lucid Dream” a survivor of the Apocalypse speaks. “Night Prayers,”...
by Toni Ortner | Jul 6, 2018 | Books
Toni Ortner lives in Putney, Vermont. In 2018 Fractured Woman and End Rhymes for End Times is being published by Word Tech Communications and Daybook I is scheduled for publication by Deerbrook Editions. On the fourth Sunday of each month she hosts the Write Action...
by Toni Ortner | Sep 25, 2017 | Books
Writing Shiva is a fast-moving, drily humorous memoir about growing up as a Jewish girl during World War II in Woodmere, Long Island where the struggle to assimilate contrasts with the deep family ties and cultural roots that even illness and death cannot sever....
