For 45 Years, Ploughshares Has Been on Cutting Edge of Literature Founded by DeWitt Henry, contributing editor for The Woven Tale Press In 1971, DeWitt Henry, now professor emeritus of Emerson’s Writing, Literature and Publishing Department, and Peter O’Malley, owner of The Plough and Stars pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, decided through discussions over pints that…
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Art Spotlight: Andrea Borsuk
The Whimsical: Horseshoes, Rabbits’ feet, and Clocks See more of Borsuk’s work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #6 I am fascinated by our cultural obsessions with the various rituals and talismans that we subscribe to for protection, good luck and safety in our daily lives. Horseshoes, rabbits’ feet, clocks, barometers and safety devices—all are…
Hamilton Glass
Mural Art: Graphic Graffiti Style By Janelle Rucker Did you know there are little jewels hidden in plain sight in most communities? Murals, stickers and tags on the sides of buildings, in alleys and on light poles, all with a story and a purpose. Hamilton Glass, known in art circles as Ham?, has been dropping these…
Works by Press Arts Editor Richard Malinsky
Passages and Paint See more of Malinsky’s work here. Passages is a series of 9 Images by Richard Malinsky. each work is 20″ x 30″ on Arches paper Music by Francesca R. Raffi Produced by Globeunityart for The Campaign ‘Art for the Artists’ globeunityart@libero.it Copyright 2014 Richard Malinsky As a second generation, color-based abstractionist, what sets Malinksy’s work apart from…
Scrapbooking
An Art Recipe By Finnabair I’m a woman of many interests: a mixed media artist, scrapbooker and art journaler who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills. My projects are mostly media-based: I make paper and canvas layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages. I started scrapbooking, and today I’ve got a scrapbook page named…
Donald Martiny
One World Trade Center Installation See more of Martiny’s work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #6 In 2015 Martiny was commissioned for installation works at One World Trade Center. As the works were to be too large to fit through the doors, he actually painted them on site, moving his “studio” for two months into the lobby…
Pulling From the Screen
Writing: The Cinematic Technique By Sarah Chauncey One of the benefits of having worked in so many mediums – print, television, stage, online, stand-alone interactive and film – is that I’ve learned a variety of storytelling techniques transferable between platforms. The combination of having been a stage manager, TV writer/producer and film critic contributed to my becoming…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg I found some fun stuff this past week and thought I’d pass it on. The first one is going out to all you bloggers that are trying to make money writing. Its a list of 50 blogs that actually pay for writers work. Guest blogging has always been a source of exposure…
Fictional Characters and Autobiography Part 2
Five Approaches to Revising Character See part one here By Elissa Field Again, not all authorial characters are broken — but this post addresses the situation where characters drawn closely from the author come across as flat. Each of the following presents a possible source of the problem and how to address it. See-through narrator: beginner’s error? In…
Art Spotlight: Cybèle Young
Cybèle Young Creates Unique Sculptural Art Works See more of her works in WTP Vol. IV #5 Young’s works are inspired by the fleeting day-to-day minutiae that comprise everyday life. Young’s miniature worlds are created by intricate handling of Japanese paper and the artist’s copperplate etchings. In the application of her subconscious to mundane and often overlooked…