Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Poetry.Psyche.Dreams.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is a poet, author, Jungian analyst, teacher, and thinker whose work explores the meeting place of poetry, psyche, dreams, memory, culture, and the moral imagination.
A reading
Fire, Desire & the Creative Muse
Naomi reads “Fire Is Your Name and Your Maker,” the opening poem of Your Face in the Fire. She wrote it after fires in California destroyed a friend’s house. In the poem, fire is that danger, and also the hearth, sexuality, and the libido for writing.
After the reading, she talks about how the poem began. The muse arrived and kept changing shape, faster than she could follow.
Words from the deep
Where the Muse Has Led
Poetry, dreams, mythology, and the feminine imagination. Each book opens a doorway into Naomi’s world, where the personal meets the archetypal and the muse finds her voice.
Your Face in the Fire
Her sixth book of poems. A lifetime of listening, gathered around fire.
Death and His Lorca
Love, mortality, and the continued presence of those who are gone.
Dreaming Night Terrors
Poems of witness, written from outrage and sorrow in a dark public hour.
The Rabbi, The Goddess, and Jung
Getting the Word from Within
Dreams, active imagination, ancestry, and the word that arrives from within.
The Little House On Stilts Remembers
Home as a keeper of memory: loss, spirit, and the life that moves through a house.
The Faust Woman Poems
A woman's adventures through Women's Liberation and the return of the Goddess.
Adagio & Lamentation
Ancestors, lament, and the music memory keeps.
The Sister From Below
When the Muse Gets Her Way
A creative calling that ordinary life can postpone, and the inner figure who refuses to stay quiet.
Crimes of the Dreamer
Poems that rose in the midst of analysis, where dream and craft meet.
Red Clay Is Talking
The first book of poems: earth, embodiment, and the voice of origins.
The Motherline
Every Woman's Journey to Find Her Female Roots
A journey through the personal, cultural, and archetypal life of mothers, daughters, and the women behind them.
About
Poet, author, and Jungian analyst.
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is a poet, author, Jungian analyst, teacher, and thinker whose work explores the meeting place of poetry, psyche, dreams, memory, culture, and the moral imagination.
This site is a living archive of poems, conversations, books, dreams, stories, and reflections gathered across a lifetime of listening to language and the psyche.
Here, poetry is not decoration. It is a way of listening to what our personal and collective lives are trying to say.
She holds a Ph.D. and is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She has taught poetry in Jungian settings for many years, including the long-running Deep River seminars, and served as poetry editor of Psychological Perspectives. She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. The Little House On Stilts Remembers received the Blue Light Poetry Prize.