Interdisciplinary Videography, Time, and Memory By Fiona N. Cashell If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels & distance, ..now & then, a stance.” — Seamus Heaney “Time is infinite. It expands and it contracts. It is both still and moving. It is here and it is…
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Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, March 14, 2017 (328 pp; $20.00 paperback, $19.99 eBook), ISBN 9781566894579 Editors: Ander Monson and Craig Reinbold Ander Monson wears many hats: teacher, author, and editor. He’s associate professor…
Interview: CM Taylor
“We are at a profoundly exciting moment in the development of the history of narrative art.” Interview with Jo Ely, Contributing Editor CM Taylor is a literary, science fiction, and dystopian novelist who has published under the names Craig Taylor, Ed Lark, and CM Taylor. He has ghostwritten for an internationally famous author and contributed…
Art Spotlight: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
Waterlilies See Sandrine Hermand-Grisel’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 digital photograph Young swimmers playing in the cool blue water pools of the brief summer season. The days are bright and long, but these sunlit months are fleeting, like childhood itself. I watch them, aware, observant, spurt of water, successful or failed spins, dives or other…
Literary Spotlight: Steve Young
From WTP Vol. V #3 The Devil Will Find You By Steve Young The rusted Chevy pickup slid to a halt, as if just stalling out. Benson dropped his thumb, though the pickup wasn’t at all what he’d had in mind, with bald tires, rusted panels and doors, and the stink of horse shit and…
Artist Mohan Sundaresan: Woven Paintings
The Weaving of Two Canvases into One By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Mohan Sundaresan, born in India, is a painter largely self-taught. In 2011 Mohan’s first solo exhibition was held at the La Jolla Historical Society. He has exhibited at UCSD La Jolla and The Escondido Center for the Arts. His work may be seen in…
Breaking Rules
“When does rule-breaking or rule-keeping become an asset or liability for the artist?” By Jean Eng While surfing the internet for information on an artist whose work I happened upon and liked, a glowing review of one show described her paintings as “unabashedly narrative.” Oh hello…The phrase made me pause, piqued my curiosity. It sounded…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
April 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. Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) An ambitious, well-edited, well-staffed, non-profit enterprise founded by Tom Lutz online in 2011 and in print in 2013, LARB…
Knowing "Bill" Knott
The Man, and the Poet By Caitlin E. Krause Read her work in WTP Vol. IV #10 “Only you can resurrect the present. People need your voice to come among them like nakedness, to fuse them into one marching language in which the word . “peace” will be said for the last time. Write slogans, write…
Our Friend Phillip
An Unexpected Blog From Phillip Lopate By Ned Stuckey-French This past February, at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Washington, DC, I went to a panel about how to follow one’s train of thought in a piece of writing. The panelists included my friends Phillip Lopate and Sarah Einstein, and after…
Eye-Drawing
“…the results only appear in the imagination.” By Jean Eng My cat has been stalking me. I decided to stalk her back—with a sketchbook. Nothing distracts potential ambush like a black book and drawing implement whipped out in front of her face. I furiously scribble impressions of feline interruptus curioso before she twitches again. It’s…
WTP Artist: Brian Wehrung
“The photographic medium doesn’t need to be about documentation.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Brian Wehrung graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with a degree in engineering. An entirely self-taught artist, he started pursuing photography as a hobby, only professionalizing in his fifties. His highly technical training as an engineer continues to influence…