Visual Poetry Video by Carolyn Guinzio Though Carolyn Guinzio is primarily a poet, she works across mediums, using light, sound, text and image in an effort to reach spaces that are inaccessible through text alone. Her newest collection is A Vertigo Book (The Word Works, 2021), winner of The Tenth Gate Prize and finalist for…
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Imagined Lives in Poetry
Mary Gilliland is the author of The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020), winner of the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Competition, and Gathering Fire (Ithaca House, 1982). Her poetry has been anthologized in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands, Strange Histories, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Wild Gods. Poems have also appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Chautauqua, Poetry…
Writing for the Long Haul
Creative Longevity as a Desire for the Unobtainable By Ronald J. Pelias, WTP Guest Writer With a wrinkled wave of years washing over me, I wonder why I am still trying to create, still trying to make words do what I would like them to do. You’d think that after all these years of effort…
Poems on Food, Race, and Identity
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, is the author of the newly released collection Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her previous books include Living Quarters, Having None of It, Sanctuary, and Middle Kingdom. In addition to appearing in five volumes of Best American Poetry, her work has been widely published in…
Grimoire, a New Collection
Cherene Sherrard is a poet, scholar, and essayist, and the Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About her most recent poetry collection, Grimoire (Autumn House Press, 2020), Terrance Hayes writes, “Her ingredients are positively cornucopian, but it’s Sherrard’s keen, enlivening spirit that gives this remarkable book its flavor….[She] shows us how…
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…
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…
Voice In and Out of Poetry
Cleopatra Mathis’ After the Body: Poems New and Selected, was published this year by Sarabande Books. In this eighth book of poems, as Michael Collier writes, one discovers “the resolute heart and keen human insights” that have made her one of “our most important and essential poets.” Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, notes her…
Coming out to Mami
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. Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the author of Visionware (Finishing Line Press), and the editor of Grabbed: Writers Respond to…
Odes to the Lost and Found
Write an ode to something that’s been lost, or recovered… A Poem Prompt from Sue D. Burton Write an ode to something that’s been lost. It could be silly, a lost sock, or it could be very serious. What comes up for me are the hundreds of wooden synagogues in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, burned to…
Women Sawn in Half
Sue D. Burton’s BOX, selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize, was awarded Silver in the Foreword INDIES Poetry Book of the Year (2018), and was a finalist for the 2019 Vermont Book Award. She is also the author of Little Steel (Fomite Press), and was awarded Fourth Genre’s Steinberg…
Cleopatra Mathis
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. Cleopatra Mathis’ eighth book of poems, After the Body: Poems New and Selected, will be published by Sarabande Books…