“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…
Jo Stealey
Forest See Jo Stealey’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 Currently “Forest” is comprised of more than fifty trees and tree parts and more than 750 cast paper rocks. It includes handmade paper, river willow, and pigment.This site-specific installation has been shown at a variety of venues. At each venue some elements are removed, others…
Drawing Gorillas
Interview with Jen Bradley By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Jen Bradley is a painter and printmaker whose work has been exhibited in the United States, and is held in public and private collections in America and abroad. In 1994, Bradley began routinely drawing at the gorilla habitat at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.…
E. J. Evans
The Sleeper Agent From WTP Vol. VII #6 You have been placed by birth in a strange country, among strange people, where you are intended to play a crucial role though no one yet knows what that will be. Keep in mind the name you’ve been given is an alias. Grow up, learn the local…
Abstract Expressionism as Figurative
Interview with Henry Jackson Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer A resident of San Francisco, Henry Jackson has exhibited his abstract paintings nationally and internationally. His work is part of the permanent collection of the De Sassait Museum in Santa Clara and the Boise Art Museum in Idaho, and it is held in numerous…
Patrick Hughes
Composition 65 See Patrick Hughes’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 watercolor on Arches 8” x 6 1/2” Patrick Hughes creates small-scale watercolor paintings that are both subtle and complex. Though abstract, Hughes’s work invokes narrative, revealing the familiar in his meticulous abstract compositions. His control and mastery of his medium is clearly visible in…
DOTTORESSA by Susan Levenstein
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome by Susan Levenstein, MD (Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, May 21, 2019. 270 pages; $16.95; paperback original ISBN 978-1-58988-139-6.) Paese che vai, usanze che trovi. (When in Rome, do as the…
David Wheldon
Strait-Jacket and Padded Cell From WTP Vol. VII #6 Late one night I was stitching up a young schizophrenic man in a locked ward. It was a long but superficial wound: he had got hold of a broken bottle and had slashed his left forearm. It was the commonest injury in the hospital, at least,…
Chehalis Hegner
Fallen Soldier Sheltering Juvenile Planet See Chehalis Hegner’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 editioned print, available in various sizes archival inkjet print on museum grade cotton rag paper “Twenty years ago, I lost the use of my left eye due to an infection. Doctors said I might lose sight in my right eye, too.…
Jo Stealey
See Stealey’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Fiber artist Jo Stealey is thrilled to enter a new phase in her life. On…
On Aphorisms
From Richard Kostalanetz’s A Writer’s Torah A Selection by DeWitt Henry, WTP Prose Editor Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature,…