Today in the Forest

This gem of a poetry and art book has been created by two poets who are also visual artists: Cindy Rinne who wrote the poems and Toti O'Brien who created the artwork. In the words of Stacy Russo, "O'Brien and Rinne have created a luminous, mythical world inhabited by a Moon Goddess, wolf-people, and various imaginative delights. It is a world destroyed or horribly threatened, yet I felt protection, care, and survival here. Today in the Forest is a poetic journey illuminated with hope and memory." Cindy Rinne creates fiber art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. Cindy is the author of several books: "silence between drumbeats" (Four Feathers Press), "Letters Under Rock" with Bory Thach, (Elyssar Press), and others. Toti O'Brien's mixed media have been exhibited in group and solo shows, in Europe and the US, since 1995. She has illustrated several children books and two memoirs. Her artwork is on the cover of several books and it was most recently featured in journals pethricor, Two Hawks, Arkana and Argo. Her book of short prose "An Alphabet of Birds" appeared in 2020.