Beth Kephart’s new book on memoir extends her ongoing conversation By Richard Gilbert, WTP Contributing Editor STRIKE THE EMPTY: NOTES FOR READERS, WRITERS, AND TEACHERS OF MEMOIR by Beth Kephart (Juncture Workshops, 2019). 185 pp, $12.00. Let’s start with the title, a very good place to start—bemused, as you are, by what “The Empty” is…
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Mauricio Paz Viola
Crystallization See Mauricio Paz Viola’s work in WTP Vol. VII #3 oil on canvas 16’’ x 23” “My works feature images of imaginary landscapes, empty or inhabited by unknown beings; landscapes that externalize the constant inner struggle of being human, that visualize conflict between good and evil, between light and darkness… hence, landscapes inhabited by…
Salvatore Difalco
From WTP Vol. VII #3 Large Anthropomorphic Canary By Salvatore Difalco The only failure is not trying. That’s what I believe. And I have not been afraid to fail. Ask my agent. She knows. At least I think she knows. But in many respects, as I explained to my agent last time she answered…
George Fellner: Photographer and Architect
Imaginary Realms: Crystal Photography Video by The Voice of Art Gallery & Studio George Fellner is committed to a dual life-path involving visual discovery and design, relating to both the natural and built environments. Inspired by his travels as well as his in-depth involvement with photo essays, George’s photographic subjects include landscape, architecture, travel, portrait, and…
ALL THE FIERCE TETHERS by Lia Purpura
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor All the Fierce Tethers: Essays by Lia Purpura (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, April 9, 2019). 200 pages, $10.76, paperback ISBN 9781946448309. “Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook.” —Sherlock Holmes “A Case of…
Walking Haiku
A Poetry Prompt from Lee Briccetti I like to walk around my neighborhood in the early mornings with a little notebook, writing a few haiku about what I notice. Like visual artists’ quick sketching, the challenge is to look, focus, wake up. To look at the material world, which is always surprising; to extrapolate to…
Walter Crump
Shell Machine See Walter Crump’s work in WTP Vol. VII #3 inkjet pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Glossy Fine Art Baryta 325 gsm 31” x 22” “I explore alternative ways in which cameras see the world. Trained as a painter and printmaker, I gradually mastered the art of photography when, in 1986, I was asked to…
Lee Briccetti
“I tell myself to live writing!” Interview with Sara London, Poetry Editor Lee Briccetti is the author of Blue Guide and Day Mark, poetry collections published by Four Way Books. She is also the Executive Director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City. Born in Italy, she earned…
Francene J. Levinson
“There are challenges to creating modular paper sculptures that are like carving stone.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Francene J. Levinson, who was born in Brooklyn, is a digital artist based in Portland, OR. She has transformed modular, three-dimensional origami into fine art. She draws inspiration from nature, with series on birds, oceans,…
Lauren Scharhag
From WTP Vol. VII #2 Buddhas on Death Row By Lauren Scharhag Over and over, he draws that visage, slender, beatific, possessed of the earlobes of wisdom. The desire to create cannot go unheeded. Sometimes, the third eye is a jewel, sometimes, a wound. Hands stained with ink, watercolor, crayon, glue. We’ll call it extreme…
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Experiments in Fine Art Photography Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked…
Patricia Lagarde
Looking for Eva 1 See Patricia Lagarde’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 platinum/palladium 6 1/2” x 4” “My work has to do with the object as symbol. I am interested in the relationships established between things and the subject that sees, describes, analyzes and names them. Representation as language, as metaphor. The theme of…