November 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief First, an update on our literary and art competitions: submissions officially closed on October 31, and winners will be announced on our site on November 15th. Other news: A warm welcome to a new contributing editor, David Hamilton. David is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa,…
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WTP Roundup: From the Editor
October 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This roundup I’m dedicating to our October 31 deadline for our first annual literary and art WTP contests—it is fast approaching. We had extended the deadline, as I suppose we’re testing the waters as to when is optimal time (if there is one) to sponsor a contest. To recap,…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
September 2017 We’re back! After an August hiatus, we inaugurate fall with WTP Vol. V #7. Don’t miss resin artist Mayme Katz; some unique analog and hand-painted photography; found-object sculpture by Robbii Wessen, and a moving story about life of an American in Israel by Sari Friedman. These are just highlights, so do check out…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
August 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Writing from the woods of New Hampshire in the early morning when the lake is like glass. August is our WTP hiatus, so catching up on my own writing (sort of) and reading of books too long piled by my bedside. July marked a month of interviews with some…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
July 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief While we frequently feature interviews with our contributors, it is rare that we are privileged to interview them in person. Last month, WTP Arts Editor Richard Malinsky was able to actually meet with Tim Prentice, kinetic sculptor on par with Calder and George Rickey. Prentice’s work is featured in…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
June 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Happy June! Highlights of WTP delights you may have missed: Interview with Brianna Baurichter about her sweeping and deeply evocative charcoal drawings; video of Holly Wong’s diaphanous and thoughtful installations works (both who appear in our Vol. V#4 issue); contributing editor Richard Gilbert’s insightful post on how making art can also apply…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
April 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This was our first year at AWP, and it was a delight to not only meet some of our contributors but to actually hear a couple of them read, namely poets Eleanor Hooker and Tess Barry. We made some other nice connections; I met Steve McCondichie, founder of Southern…
From the Editor: WTP Roundup
February 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Our first issue of 2017 is out! And it’s our first issue requiring a subscription—these subscription numbers are crucial to our long-term survival. Just enter your email and we will arrive once a month in your inbox. We remain forever (hopefully) free. On other fronts: We published our first…
Galleries—Make a Difference
Exhibitions and Activism By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief In light of recent events, of the reckless, dangerous, and entirely callous trajectory of our new president, I applaud the resistance by the arts community, from the more national movements of the J20 Art strike and petitions circulating by Americans for the Arts Action, to the more local of actual…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
January 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief With the hustle and bustle of the holidays, you may have missed some of our December features: A couple of particularly insightful interviews, with Charlotte Holmes on how she transitioned as a writer from poetry to prose; and printer-maker-turned-photographer Susan Malmstrom on her fascinating images of curiosity cabinets; and a…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
December 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief With our December issue, we wind up 2016, a year of great changes for WTP. As mentioned in my November Roundup, we now post features almost daily on our site, but what I didn’t mention is that these features are always evolving; we began reviewing actual websites primarily as…
Trump Versus the Arts
What is Our New Reality? By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This past August, in the Washington Post, Phillip Kennicott posed this question: “What would happen to the arts if this country turned to authoritarian leadership? If fundamental freedoms were challenged, if a strong leader gathered up the full weight of the regulatory state and started using…