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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. Over the years, in pursuit of a visual arts education, Jeanne LaCasse has traveled to China, France, Italy, Argentina, and attended workshops across the…

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. G.D. Brown has worked as a literary editor and as an award-winning newswriter. His literary work has appeared in or is set to appear…

Congratulations for being awarded Honorable Mentions in our 2019 Hampton Competitions! For Fine Art Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins She was born in Philadelphia and grew up mainly in Southern New Jersey. She holds an M.F.A. from the University at Albany, an M.A. from the University at Albany, and a B.A. from Rutgers University. Growing up in…

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so feeling sickly we confused the artificial for real.   came in from the sun.   dazed in the parlour, until the feeling passed.   sbm.  

have you ever gone back, that painful journey, watching swallows dip as if they had never been away. staggering the stones you may find god in water falling. echoing all the tears of your life. sbm.

 i am eight now nearly nine.  tall.   18.65   work the deep mine.  small.   6  to 6,  break for bread, and poetry.    do not whistle, save your breath.       18.70 . apprenticed, looking for promotion. chains.   he is forty one i think, lungs are stone.     forty five,  19.03…

who knows which hour it starts, which minute, rhyme or reason. breaking of rules,        our hearts open.                         split a season. on spring,                 slight chance, light            or prayers can change. sons      move in a prouder stance, yet others rage. black bird sings   early the same bird calls late. sense that nearby one year came straight.…

black bird sings early, the same bird calls late. new light drowns darkness, spring spins around. black bird calls early, the same bird calls late. sonnet sings ten beats to another’s spare sound. who asks for word, who knows which hour it starts, which minute, which rule of rhyme or reason. making of lines ,…