Rusty C. Moe

Rusty C. Moe is the author of three books of poetry--Our Presence Together In Chaos, Where God Lives (Black Moss Press), Way-Marks: New Poems (Fourth Lloyd Productions)--and a memoir, Bright Wild Stone: A Contemplative Journal of Roots That Shape A Life (Fourth Lloyd Productions). A native of Midland, Michigan, Rusty has been, for many years, a psychotherapist in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he lives with his partner, psychotherapist and jazz vocalist, Tim Hoover. He is a supervisor in the marriage and family therapy program at Christian Theological Seminary, an instructor with the Indianapolis Gestalt Institute, and a retreat animator for the Thomas Merton Institute For Contemplative Living. His website address is books.rustymoe.com, and he can be reached by e-mail at Rustymoe@comcast.net.

Comments about Rusty's writings--

Phillip Gulley--"Rusty Moe has written a world I desperately want to live in. Touching and true--one moment, witty; the next moment, heart-rending--his poems do everything good writing should do."

Brother Patrick Hart--"Rusty Moe's incarnational poetry speaks to the heart."

Dan Carpenter--"Rusty Moe's spiritual memoir is a lyric prose poem of pilgrimage that merrily turns Saint Augustine and Thomas Merton on their heads. In sequence or at random, I can visit any section and find poetry, spirituality and physicality together, unfenced. Inspired in its language, deeply meditative, fearless and mischievous, Bright Wild Stone achieves the trinity its title promises."

Libby Falk Jones--"'I want to lay bare my own gospel to myself,' writes Rusty Moe, in his journal of his sixtieth year. His intimacy and universality are good news to us all--Bright Wild Stone is a praise-song to truth, a spirit-journey of exuberance, wonder and grace."

Robert Lax--"Sweet, heavenly voice!"

Robert Sardello--"Rusty Moe speaks the heart's language, which may be foreign to some, but will resound for most as the language of (our real) home."

Jonathan Montaldo--"A heart's fierce psalms bloom intricate in shades of grateful prayer and protests. Strongly accomplished, powerfully beautiful."

Linda Z. Smith--"Rusty Moe's spiritually-potent poetry simply delivers us to our illumated truth."

Jerry Wennstrom--"The shadow of our humanity glows redeemed in Rusty Moe's poetry. It lifts us above the tension and angst of paradox and grounds us in the reverent simplicity of wonder.