Dancing Moon Press Poetry
In this collection of poems written over the past 30 years, Oregon author and poet Bruce Toien examines a variety of topics including Counsel, For-Fun, Memories, Norwegian, Passions, Puzzles, Reflections, Relationships, Social Justice.
A masterful collection of poetry about the Italian city written with a twist -- each poem is a single sentence. "Kake Huck . . . lays open for us the perpetual play (or war) among art, sex, religion, and politics, her sharp observations drawing into focus the disparity between artifice and reality." -- Judith Montgomery, author of "Pulse and Constellation." "You. . . will travel in the company of poems so beautifully rendered you won't notice each is only one sentence long . . . such is the remarkable skill of the poet." -- Ellen Waterston, author "Hotel Domilicos" "Sentenced to Venice is a quirky, informed and irreverent homage to a great world city." -- Marion Davidson, Closeness of Ice
Giving Thanks is the record of a pilgrim, a seeker engaged in the “hard work” of becoming—day by day, moment by moment—a more appreciative, more compassionate person. In one poem, Tom Hogan asks himself, “How can I be grateful enough?” Time and time again, his poems answer that question. Hogan’s collection responds—with piety and humility—to a world in which “It always seems/ like/ we’re asked to give more/ than we receive/ until it becomes an act of respect/ and finally love.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita
The Girl Inside Me is a story about a little girl's life collected in a poetic format
It Takes a Journey to Heal is a Woman’s Right of Passage transitioning from a girl to Woman to a Queen
A book of poetry and photographs divided into four sections: Wanderlust, Oregon Lust, Just Plain Lust, and Bloodlust.
Katy McKinney's poems are filled with river mist and the smell of pines and Douglas fir. They speak of a life lived close to nature, following the earth from cycle to cycle and watching the seasons change. She has a true heart and a true eye. This is a fine debut collection.
--Joseph Millar, author of Blue Rust
"On the backs of seahorses' eyes / Journey of a man through time / New and selected poems and other storybook tales, 1962-2012". My poems and writings have been an archetypal and spiritual/soul journey through the passions and bold dramatics of youth to the later poems of self-restraint, openness, and equipoise. Beginning with the section "Remembrance of you / Journey to Greece," my writings shed their intense symbolic and sometimes surreal speech for a more direct, personal, and intimate voice. The best of my poems contain simple, timeless expressions of ongoing consciousness.
