“jerry ortner”

Having the opportunity to teach math for over 25 years, I have found many days when you hit a brick wall. Whether it was in middle school, junior or senior high school, or at the community college, there were days when the new topic was not understood by the students. I could see it in their reactio... More

"Dream in Pienza" was originally published by the Timberline Press in a handset and hand printed limited edition. The title poem written in Rome sings of the passion of unrequited love in another century. From birth through resurrection we sweep our separate shores for sight of stars. Although the a... More

"The chapbook is about the experience of being in a mental hospital although it could have been about being in any kind of prison. The specifics are here, and it is well written."-Judy Hogan, "Motheroot Journal": a women's review of small presses"... More

"Review by Helen Cooper in Motheroot Journal" The title poem, "Entering Another Country," is dedicated to a male friend who has died. There are exuberant, rich landscapes of imagined travel, journeys into the visual worlds of Grandma Moses and Rousseau, and the painful realization that what the poet... More