Writing about Dreams, Loss, Fatherhood & Farming By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor One fall day, I sat down to write about my family’s experiences in Appalachian Ohio, where we lived and worked and were part-time farmers for thirteen years. It took me a year and a half to produce a manuscript of 500 pages. It took me…
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Seeing in New Ways
Photographic Composition By Jeff Alu Look for his work in upcoming Vol. IV #8 Everything is a good photographic subject. There are no bad photographic compositions. I was incredibly lucky and honored to have given an artist talk to the Disney Imagineering Photography Group last year. One of the Imagineers bought my photography book at…
Literary Spotlight: Tess Barry
Emptied of All But Wildness See her work in Vol. IV #7 Running past an urban field emptied of all but wildness, I see a scattered patch of bricks, sprawling weeds grown brown and tall and in among them glimpse some purpled heads of summer clover. They bend and blow toward me. A single Queen…
Review: Dani Shapiro's Still Writing
Memoir: the Personal vs. the Universal By Contributing Editor Richard Gilbert “Demons haunt your pages because they already exist.”—Dani Shapiro “Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”—Henry David Thoreau Neat sentiment, Henry David, and it seems apt for writer Dani Shapiro, who has…
Process & Inspiration
“I Build up and Tear Down” By Lisa Boardwine See her work in WTP Vol. IV #7 My process involves layers upon layers of applying paint. Using various tools for adding texture and interest, I build up and tear down, dissolve through and scrape back, excavating and veiling to recreate a sense of the mysterious through many layers of media. The…
Art Spotlight: Miabo Enyadike
Found Art See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol IV #7 I create art that is inspiring and mostly from found objects. The purpose is to restore back function and beauty to these objects.” Visit Miabo Enyadike’s website. Copyright 2016 Woven Tale Press LLC. All Rights Reserved.
WTP Artist: Stina Persson
“Always striving for beauty but letting the process, and struggles, show.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stina Persson studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, and also has a degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. Using ink, watercolor or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers, she creates a style…
Book Review: Versed by Rae Armantrout
Judging by the Blurb By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor I’m writing for the first time about a book I haven’t finished yet. My friend Sharon Bryan recommended Rae Armantrout’s Versed, and I’m enjoying a precision as sharp and startling as the plunge of a needle in Armantrout’s spare, tight lines. Who expects “mass market” to follow…
Black Hand Rose Garden
Video by Rose Knapp Rose Knapp is a poet, novelist, electronic music producer, and multimedia artist. She has an experimental novel forthcoming and poetry publications in Chicago Literati, PDXX Collective, BlazeVOX, OccuPoetry, Danse Macabre, and others. She currently divides her time between Brooklyn and Minneapolis. Twitter Handle: @Rose_Siyaniye About the work: “This video/audio project combines several…
Site Review: Richard Gilbert's Draft No. 4
The Literary Memoir “Gilbert explores the enterprise of literary memoir in particular, and of good writing in general.” By DeWitt Henry, contributing editor Blogs can serve as anthologies-in-progress or on-line learning seminars, open studios, book drafts, self-dramatizations, lectures, guided conversations, and spiritual and intellectual explorations: Richard Gilbert’s Draft No. 4 Blog and its predecessor “Narrative”…
Interview: Jean Valentine
“I want [my poetry] to take off the diver’s mask.” Interview by Nancy Mitchell, Plume Poetry Originally published in Plume Poetry. Saturday morning, June 4, 2016, Schumaker Pond, Salisbury, Maryland. Our conversation began the last morning of Jean’s four-day visit to our house in Maryland. Because we spent most of our time in the company…
Alex Hall: Photography
Artwork 00409-00410 Abstractions and variants including photo from USGS bee survey Pseudospinolia Neglecta This hybrid digital paint/digital photography work is derived from two sources, which I worked up and heavily modified in Photoshop and Filter Forge. One source is a USGS Bee Survey public domain photograph; click the image to open the source page for…