Ore in Every Rift of Livesey’s Apologia and Guide By Dewitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor THE HIDDEN MACHINERY: ESSAYS ON WRITING by Margot Livesey (Tin House Books, 2017). 301pp, paper, $15.95. MFA programs are descendants of the “how to be a successful writer” handbooks in the 1890s (see “Handbooks and Workshops” in Andrew Levy’s 1993…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
October 2017 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. NYU School of Medicine Library: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database For writers/readers looking for leads to poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art concerning medical encounters and life…
Book Review: Heating & Cooling
Micro-Memoirs of a Life Lived and Imagined By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor HEATING & COOLING: 52 MICRO-MEMOIRS by Beth Ann Fennelly (W.W. Norton & Co, October 2017) 112pp, $22.95. Beth Ann Fennelly, poet, novelist, letter writer, and writing program administrator, tells a large story with her nuanced collection of “52 micro-memoirs,” some a sentence…
WTP Writer: David Hamilton
Poems Discovered More Than Written By Emily Jaeger, WTP feature writer David Hamilton, whose poetry appears in WTP Vol. V #7, is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press), Ossabaw (Salt Publishing), and numerous uncollected essays. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa, where…
Video: Project 911UP
Hope, Healing, and Rebuilding Spirit By Sandra Priest The concrete slurry wall foundation was poured four feet thick, seven stories deep, and secured with cables into bedrock and was to hold back the mighty Hudson River around the original World Trade Center in New York City. It was the only thing left intact after 9/11.…
Interview: Donna Baier Stein
Live at The Algonquin in NYC Interview by Susan Tepper, WTP Contributor WTP contributor Susan Tepper, whose work appears in Vol. V #4, conducts a series of interviews at the Algonquin in New York City. Donna Baier Stein is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award, Finalist in Foreword reviews 2017 Book of…
WTP Artist: Mayme Kratz
“I think my pieces are like life, like nature.” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Mayme Kratz was born in San Diego County, California and has lived in Phoenix since 1986. Self-educated and focused on her creative life at an early age, she apprenticed with artist James Hubbell in her early twenties. Solo exhibitions include:…
Art Spotlight: Douglas Max Utter
Demeter in Winter See Douglas Max Utter’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 acrylic paint, latex paint, oil paint, black pastel on canvas 31.5’’ x 30’’ When I paint a shoulder waiting for an arm to move, or a hat sitting on a head, or the way a cloud rests on a stroke or a…
Literary Spotlight: David Hamilton
From WTP Vol. V #7 Titmouse Turns By David Hamilton away. He didn’t fly off but turned his back on me to sit still on the limb from which my feeder dangles. I say he, but it could be she, you can’t really tell, but I’ll guess he who looks a bit sad, contemplative, staring…
WTP Artist: Tao Ho
Analog Technology: “It has the closest relationship to me.” By August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Tao Ho is a photographer and musician originally from Canton, China. After he finished his BFA degree of Traditional Chinese Painting in 2010, he switched his direction to photography. He received his MFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art…
Author Interview: Stephanie Dickinson
Live at The Algonquin in NYC Interview by Susan Tepper, WTP Contributor WTP contributor Susan Tepper, whose work appears in Vol. V #4, conducts a series of interviews at the Algonquin in New York City. Stephanie Dickinson was raised on an Iowa farm, then lived in Texas, Louisiana, and now New York City, a…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
September 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Arts 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. Harold Garde As we age and the people who inspired, taught, and befriended us pass, it is always a joy to be able to remark on a…