Fractured Woman

Fractured Woman

Fractured Woman by Toni Ortner utilizes the prose poem to confront the urgent social, political and environmental events of our times. In “Report on Easter Sunday from the Third Planet from the Sun” the writer responds to the devastation caused by climate...
Daybook III: Morning is Long Since Gone

Daybook III: Morning is Long Since Gone

Toni Ortner’s Daybook III, Morning Is Long Since Gone infuses her inner life’s dreamscape, her singing tree with realities that scream over the land. Ortner’s surreal meditations in corridors persistent with memory evoke a world of redemption shattered in the ashes of...
Daybook II

Daybook II

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...
Daybook I

Daybook I

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,...
End Rhymes for End Times

End Rhymes for End Times

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,”...
Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach

Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach

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...