Benefits of a Collective Narration By Anita Gill, WTP Guest Writer Anita Gill is a teacher and writer based in Los Angeles. She has an MA in Literature from American University, and she will soon complete an MFA in Nonfiction from Pacific University. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, Brevity’s blog, Hippocampus Magazine, and…
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WTP Roundup: From the Editor
January 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Happy New Year, as we usher in 2018 with a rich and varied inaugural edition of Volume VI. We anticipate continued and steady growth this year, as we extend our reach, now with art correspondents out in the field—I’m hoping to highlight especially out-of-the-way galleries representing surprising talents deserving…
WTP Artist: J. Ivcevich
Finding Sublime out of Detritus Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer As a sociological observer, J. Ivcevich documents the spirit of a place and highlights issues unique to the human condition in his artwork. He’s a self-taught artist who earned a sociology degree from Emory University. After college, he stayed in Atlanta working as…
Art Spotlight: Amalia Galdona Broche
A Search for Identity See Amalia Galdona Broche’s sculpture in WTP Vol. VI #1 newspaper, resin, and steel The Search for Identity series started by looking back over my childhood, among the decaying infrastructure of a Cuba frozen in a revolution long past, to understand how my generation came to its present form. But my…
Literary Spotlight: Tanya Perkins
From Vol. VI #1 People are Naturally Attracted to You By Tanya Perkins The grandfather died and the children were called home, children who were not children anymore but adults with stomachs and mortgages. They had no parents, never did. The grandfather had overseen childhood: parkas, homework, Easter eggs, summer camps, college trips. After supper,…
WTP Writer: Dina Elenbogen
Writing Poetry is “Gathering Sparks” By August Smith, WTP Features Writer Dina Elenbogen is author of the memoir, Drawn from Water (BkMK University of Missouri Press) and the poetry collection Apples of the Earth (Spuyten Duyvil, NY). Her work has appeared in anthologies such as City of the Big Shoulders (University of Iowa Press), Beyond Lament…
WTP Artist: Barbara Bryn Klare
“I literally draw the lines and curves of each bowl, with my hands and with the thread.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Barbara Bryn Klare is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who works primarily with rescued textiles, objects, works on paper, and installations. She was an artist-in-residence at the Icelandic Textile Center…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
January 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] Art Movements and how they got their names In the art world of the nineteenth century we saw a variety of experimental responses to the cultural…
WTP Artist: Alan Bray
“I began to paint what was important to me and what I loved instead of what was cool.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Alan Bray studied at the Art Institute of Boston and the University of Southern Maine. He received his Master’s degree in painting from the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, Italy, in…
Site Review: Lorraine DeProspo
Capturing the Experience of the Sea By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lorraine DeProspo describes herself as “a painter, ceramic artist, and an assembler of things.” Her site presents a body of work that clearly reflects a deep and reverent relationship with nature, with an affinity to sea, sky, and particularly fog. She translates this inspiration…
Site Review: Sharon Stepman
A Photographer with a Vision By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Sharon Stepman’s site is divided up into subjects such as “oceans,” “people,” and “flowers,” that at first glance may seem a random smattering, but as one explores her evocative and strange photography, a singular consistent vision emerges, both playful and brooding, foreboding and inviting. It’s…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Belladonna New York: New Directions, October 31, 2017. 400pp., $19.95, paperback ISBN: 9780811227216, e-book ISBN: 9780811227223. Author: Daša Drndić Croatian novelist, playwright, literary critic, and translator Daša Drndić is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University…