Three Artists and Their Mediums By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze. November 15, 2020 – February, 2021; Flood Gallery; Black Mountain, NC. Despite attempts to contemporize the show with its title Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze, on exhibit thru February at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Black Mountain, NC,…
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Photocollage as Painting
Amy Ragus is a photocollage/mixed media artist who considers herself a painter who uses photo fragments as brushstrokes on a larger field. Her work in photocollage has been exhibited in one-person and group exhibits in the US and abroad. She was a founding partner of Fine Arts Express, Inc. and an assistant professor of Art…
Las Palabras de Aves
The Words of Birds Video by Amy Bobeda Amy Bobeda is an artist living in Colorado finishing her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at Naropa University. She is the founder of Wisdom Body Collective, an arts collective rooted in embodying the sacred feminine. She works in myth, menstruation, and the space between seen and…
Magical Realism for the Current Reality
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Prayer for the Living: Stories by Ben Okri (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, February 2, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95; ISBNs: 978-1-61775-863-8 hardcover, 978-1-61775-874-4 ebook). Originally published by Head of Zeus in London, October 2019. “We live in…
On Steven Cramer’s "Listen"
An Appreciation By Joyce Peseroff, WTP Contributing Editor Steven Cramer knows his way around a poem more than almost anyone I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. Quote a Dickinson line, and he’ll bring up two examples of how she uses the same diction elsewhere. He’ll find a writer like Robert Walser and re-envision his…
WTP Vol. IX #1
This month: A Daytime Moon Poem, BioArt, reflections on Blake, handwritten drawings and more! To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Concepts of Math
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Sydney Lea, a former Pulitzer finalist, founded and for thirteen years edited New England Review. His twentieth book, and his thirteenth collection of poems,…
Crow Summer Scenes
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Kelly Ann Jacobson is the author of many books, including Cairo in White, and the poetry collection I Have Conversations with You in My…
2020 WTP Pushcart Nominees
We are late on announcing but here they are! Pushcart Nominees for Prose: Ellen Wilbur for “Winter “Scene” Vol. VIII #7 Joseph Hurka for “War” Vol. VIII #6 Rick Wormwood for “The Couch Was Never Mine” Vol. VIII #5 Pushcart Nominees for Poetry: AK Oburumu “Lagos and How I Saw it When I Was a…
The Art of Drawing
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Colombian artist Gloria Ortiz-Hernández’s drawings and sculptures have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections…
Pursuit of Sadness
The Power of Repetition Video by Lea Wülferth and Derek Muro A Finalist for the Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest, “Pursuit of Sadness” is an audiovisual collaboration between Lea Wülferth, a writer and visual artist, and Derek Muro, a composer and sound artist, built around the following repeating words displayed on screen and interspersed with other…
Finding Identity in the Netherlands
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Djinn by Tofik Dibi, translated (& Introduction) by Nicolaas P. Barr (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, January 2021; 143 pages; $19.95; ISBNs: 9781438481302 paperback, 9781438481319 ebook). SUNY series in Queer Politics and Culture.…