(left to right: Leila Philip and Garth Evans In 2012, writer Leila Philip and artist Garth Evans set out to challenge themselves. Philip, an award-winning prose writer, wrote poems. Evans, an internationally renowned sculptor, made watercolors. Philip’s realist poems—about nature, beauty, love, and loss, set amongst Evans’ abstract, deeply hued, layered watercolors–create a book which is…
iPhoneography: Hoarfrost Series
By David Hayes See his work in WTP Vol. III #3 Most mornings I take my Brittany, Kaylee, out for a walk at the nearby park. The Little Miami River runs through this section so I am always on the lookout for happenings on the water. This particular morning, it wasn’t what was on the…
WTP Writer: Claire Meadows
Interview by Press Literary Editor Jo Ely: Tell us about your writing process. For example, do you outline? Revise extensively? I don’t like to make the process too academic and prescriptive. I’ve not set up stringent conditions just in case I’m ever called upon to write in radically different situations and find myself stranded without…
Woven Tale Press Art Exhibition Opening...
…was a huge success! Great eclectic representation of Press artists, and with one of our Press contributors, Christine Klaus, reading from her own work as well as the poetry of a couple of others included in the book. Our first selected works edition is all about an eclectic rather than “best” representation of past artists,…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
So here are a few blog sites that I think you will enjoy while I enjoy my coffee. http://news.direct2artist.com/ This one is about the business side of art. http://www.jar-online.net/ The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research…
Graphite Drawing...With a Brush
Dandelion Hair, graphite on paper, 50″ x 50″ Melissa Cooke on graphite drawing: I started using powdered graphite in January of 2008. It was a point in my work where I was feeling stagnant, making small, tedious pencil drawings. I knew I had to make some changes. My solution was to visit an art store and…
Poetry: "Not for the Fame Hungry"
By Salena Godden Adapted from the introduction to her collection of poetry, Fishing in the Aftermath. Early on, I learned that the writing life would not be an easy life. I would have to hustle. Poetry is not for the fame hungry or the lightweight. I believe every book should lead you to another book,…
Special Woven Tale Press Art Exhibition
Big News! The Press goes LIVE! A special Woven Tale Press exhibition! Opening reception is this Saturday, December 5th, 6-9 pm: Selected Woven Tale Works 2015 All are welcome to attend, especially those near Putman, Connecticut. This show is being held in conjunction with the publication of our first Woven Tale Press selected works print edition. The…
... winter carole ..
winter bare her soul. medieval trees reach up for solstice and better days. sing in silence and simplicity. sing for those in remembrance . dark winter bares the soul, those that believe. sing in silence. one voice breaks. dark winter. sbm.
.. reading for anna ..
carrying the book, gently, i find that jesus is off the wall again. breeze from the doors blows him and cobwebbed minds away, as i write the small book, on black keys of words. gentle here this morning, sun dreams in, quiet in all the rooms, and arms held high, i come into the morning,…
.. reading three ..
there is a need to pace about, wave the paper, move the arms. need to pause and counter act. if this reading thing will work. maybe moving eliminates the standing still, precisely that leads to a self concious pose. the need to read is ready. rehearsals held each day focus on the oak tree. alongside…