Today in the Forest

This gem of a poetry-and-art book has been created by Cindy Rinne, poet and fiber artist, and Toti O'Brien, artist, musician, and poet, with Cindy's poems and Toti's images in a delightful counterpoint of words and visions. 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." Kathabela Wilson thus describes this book: "As if in the forest all the problems of our world are being solved under the bark of trees, in an unseen parallel world, a precise and healing mythology is acted out by half human half visionary figures. Cindy has recorded and given us a magic scroll. Toti has drawn and given us the map."

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. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including Anti-Heroin Chic, Verse-Virtual, LitGleam, plus several anthologies.

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 the journals pethricor, Two Hawks, Arkana and Argo.