New To WTP Blog: Indie Book Reviews and a Look at Indie Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Book Review Editor Book: Ninety-Nine Stories of God Portland, OR: Tin House Books, July 12, 2016 ($19.95 cloth hardcover; 168 pages) ISBN 978-1-941040-35-5 Author: Joy Williams The highly respected writing of Joy Williams includes four novels, four prior short-story collections, a…
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Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
Chattanooga, a City Cafe, and MOMA By Donald Kolberg, Contributing Editor After a short summer hiatus, I’m back to my blog and bringing you art stuff from around the Web. I was in Chattanooga (stayed at the Cho Cho Hotel, the old train station.) and spent some time looking at the regional art. If you’re…
Walking on Egg Shells
Performing Anticipation Video by Kathryn Baczeski Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a visual artist from Southbury Connecticut. She received her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Connecticut in 2009. She is currently earning her MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. Baczeski is an avid dreamer and believer that anything…
Information vs. Emotion in Memoir
Writing about Dreams, Loss, Fatherhood & Farming By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor One fall day, I sat down to write about my family’s experiences in Appalachian Ohio, where we lived and worked and were part-time farmers for thirteen years. It took me a year and a half to produce a manuscript of 500 pages. It took me…
Seeing in New Ways
Photographic Composition By Jeff Alu Look for his work in upcoming Vol. IV #8 Everything is a good photographic subject. There are no bad photographic compositions. I was incredibly lucky and honored to have given an artist talk to the Disney Imagineering Photography Group last year. One of the Imagineers bought my photography book at…
Literary Spotlight: Tess Barry
Emptied of All But Wildness See her work in Vol. IV #7 Running past an urban field emptied of all but wildness, I see a scattered patch of bricks, sprawling weeds grown brown and tall and in among them glimpse some purpled heads of summer clover. They bend and blow toward me. A single Queen…
Review: Dani Shapiro's Still Writing
Memoir: the Personal vs. the Universal By Contributing Editor Richard Gilbert “Demons haunt your pages because they already exist.”—Dani Shapiro “Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”—Henry David Thoreau Neat sentiment, Henry David, and it seems apt for writer Dani Shapiro, who has…
Site Review: Writers' Houses
Where Do Writers Live? By Angelica Gonzalez, WTP Editorial Assistant At the end of August, the internet was buzzing with the news of I, Too, Arts Collective, an organization rallying to turn the now-vacant home of Langston Hughes into an artists’ haven. The former homes of literary icons can have a profound—even religious—effect on writers…
Process & Inspiration
“I Build up and Tear Down” By Lisa Boardwine See her work in WTP Vol. IV #7 My process involves layers upon layers of applying paint. Using various tools for adding texture and interest, I build up and tear down, dissolve through and scrape back, excavating and veiling to recreate a sense of the mysterious through many layers of media. The…
Art Spotlight: Miabo Enyadike
Found Art See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol IV #7 I create art that is inspiring and mostly from found objects. The purpose is to restore back function and beauty to these objects.” Visit Miabo Enyadike’s website. Copyright 2016 Woven Tale Press LLC. All Rights Reserved.
WTP Artist: Stina Persson
“Always striving for beauty but letting the process, and struggles, show.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stina Persson studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, and also has a degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. Using ink, watercolor or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers, she creates a style…
Book Review: Versed by Rae Armantrout
Judging by the Blurb By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor I’m writing for the first time about a book I haven’t finished yet. My friend Sharon Bryan recommended Rae Armantrout’s Versed, and I’m enjoying a precision as sharp and startling as the plunge of a needle in Armantrout’s spare, tight lines. Who expects “mass market” to follow…