Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor All the Fierce Tethers: Essays by Lia Purpura (Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, April 9, 2019). 200 pages, $10.76, paperback ISBN 9781946448309. “Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook.” —Sherlock Holmes “A Case of…
Walking Haiku
A Poetry Prompt from Lee Briccetti I like to walk around my neighborhood in the early mornings with a little notebook, writing a few haiku about what I notice. Like visual artists’ quick sketching, the challenge is to look, focus, wake up. To look at the material world, which is always surprising; to extrapolate to…
Walter Crump
Shell Machine See Walter Crump’s work in WTP Vol. VII #3 inkjet pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Glossy Fine Art Baryta 325 gsm 31” x 22” “I explore alternative ways in which cameras see the world. Trained as a painter and printmaker, I gradually mastered the art of photography when, in 1986, I was asked to…
Lee Briccetti
“I tell myself to live writing!” Interview with Sara London, Poetry Editor Lee Briccetti is the author of Blue Guide and Day Mark, poetry collections published by Four Way Books. She is also the Executive Director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City. Born in Italy, she earned…
Francene J. Levinson
“There are challenges to creating modular paper sculptures that are like carving stone.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Francene J. Levinson, who was born in Brooklyn, is a digital artist based in Portland, OR. She has transformed modular, three-dimensional origami into fine art. She draws inspiration from nature, with series on birds, oceans,…
Lauren Scharhag
From WTP Vol. VII #2 Buddhas on Death Row By Lauren Scharhag Over and over, he draws that visage, slender, beatific, possessed of the earlobes of wisdom. The desire to create cannot go unheeded. Sometimes, the third eye is a jewel, sometimes, a wound. Hands stained with ink, watercolor, crayon, glue. We’ll call it extreme…
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Experiments in Fine Art Photography Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked…
Art Roundup: Brooklyn
Winter 2018 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Art shares a natural affinity with the world of science.…
Patricia Lagarde
Looking for Eva 1 See Patricia Lagarde’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 platinum/palladium 6 1/2” x 4” “My work has to do with the object as symbol. I am interested in the relationships established between things and the subject that sees, describes, analyzes and names them. Representation as language, as metaphor. The theme of…
Art Roundup: New York City
Winter 2018 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. This winter in the northeast, where life quiets down a bit…
Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Winter 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Can history ever truly be put to bed? Is it firmly…