“In a digital age, I love to be as hands on as possible and create photographs rather than simply take them.” Interview By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Jessica Maria Manley is a New York City–based photographer and art educator. She graduated The School Of Visual Arts, NYC in 2012 and attended post-graduate school at New Jersey…
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A Visit With Donald Hall
Where a Poet Lives By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor Donald Hall used to have his own zip code. So prodigious was his correspondence, it overwhelmed the Danbury, New Hampshire, post office where his mail was delivered. Later, his mailing address switched to Wilmot, and he grudgingly obtained an email address for his assistant. But he…
Art Spotlight: Kate Breakey
Lone Sheoak Tree by Ocean, Kangaroo Island, South Australia See Kate Breakey’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 digital archival print hand-colored with pencil edition of 20, unique various 24” x 30” Kate Breakey is internationally recognized for large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs, including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers, animals, and insects. Beginning…
Literary Spotlight: Bob Beach
From WTP Vol. V #7 The Legacy By Bob Beach A company town in the coal country of West Virginia offered a bleak existence for a child growing up. The dust that sifted daily from the mine shafts settled into every crevice of our community, painting it a thousand shades of gray. It seeped into…
Site Review: Debasis Mukhopadhyay
“I like to see these languages as multiple voices dwelling within me.” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Debasis Mukhopadhyay holds a PhD in literary studies and lives and writes in Montreal, Canada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Curly Mind, After the Pause, Posit, Manneqüin Haüs, Yellow Chair Review, Thirteen Myna Birds,…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books. August 29, 2017. 253 pp., $13.99 paperback (ISBN: 9781937794750), $6.99 e-book (ISBN: 9781937794767). Editors: Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland The editors of Sunvault are both graduate students in Iowa…
Art Spotlight: Rebecca Brodskis
Mind my Other Minds See Rebecca Brodskis’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 oil on canvas 49” x 77” My paintings are an invitation to take part in an oneiric journey, guided by a vague narrative that can be interpreted in multiple ways. I accomplish this by not overworking the details and by not locating the…
Literary Spotlight: Sari Friedman
From WTP Vol. V #7 The Woman at the Window By Sari Friedman Black silhouette of the woman at my window. There whether my eyes are open or closed. Her emotional imprint, the hunched shoulder shape of her longing. She stares out toward the kibbutz’s cows. Waiting for someone or something. You know when you’re…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
September 2017 We’re back! After an August hiatus, we inaugurate fall with WTP Vol. V #7. Don’t miss resin artist Mayme Katz; some unique analog and hand-painted photography; found-object sculpture by Robbii Wessen, and a moving story about life of an American in Israel by Sari Friedman. These are just highlights, so do check out…
A Writer Learns From Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth Offers a Master Class in the Literary Arts By Beth Kephart Beth Kephart, a National Book Award finalist, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of twenty-two books. A partner at Juncture Workshops, she has recently published the illustrated memoir workbook, Tell the Truth. Make It Matter. More about Beth,…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
September 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.[gap height=”15″] Ducts: A Pipeline of Personal Stories Founded in 1999 by Jonathan Kravetz, this New York City–based online journal has undergone a recent makeover, Ducts…
Book Review: Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur
The Inclination to Celebrate Things By Alfred Nicol Alfred Nicol’s most recent collection of poetry, Animal Psalms, was published in 2016 by Able Muse Press. Nicol has published two other collections, Elegy for Everyone (2009), and Winter Light, which received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse,…