A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS: STORIES by May-lee Chai (Durham, NC: Blair, October 23, 2018). 166 pp, $16.95; paperback ISBN 9780932112767. “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most importantly, it finds homes for us everywhere.” —Hazel Rochman…
WTP 2018 Winner: Cynthia Manick
“As a poet, the poem has to be more than a single moment; it has to point to something.” Interview by Joyce Peseroff, WTP 2018 Poetry Judge Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.…
Art Spotlight: Julio Alan Lepez
Icon 3 See Julio Alan Lepez’s work in WTP Vol. VI #9 oil and collage on mdf cutout 36 5/8” x 17 3/8” My work is focused on the human figure. There is always a body, a face. That is the excuse, the starting point. A basis of portraits and poses upon which to experiment. And…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
November 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Ryan Ridge: Fiction Writer, Poet, Editor Ridge’s site looks offhanded and simplistic at first. “Home” offers a cartoonish line sketch of the back of a…
Dean Kostos
From WTP Vol. VI #9 The Ban By Dean Kostos Excerpted from The Boy Who Listened to Paintings, a forthcoming memoir Home was 413 Wayne Drive. My mother said the four stood for our family, but the thirteen was unlucky. Our clapboard house was one among many on a curving street. In the summer, I’d hear the…
Site Review: Maya Dunsky
Abstract Art Series and Butoh Dance By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Maya Dunsky is a multidisciplinary artist, butoh dancer, choreographer, and painter. Born in Israel, she studied there as well as in Japan, and now lives and creates in Zickron Yaakov, Israel. She is professionally trained in classical ballet, butoh dance, and the fine arts. Butoh…
Art Spotlight: Stacy Slaten
Nesting #4 See Stacy Slaten’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 graphite on paper 12” x 9” Slaten’s understanding of the human form underlies all her work with an emphasis in figurative studies, although she is now investigating the anatomy of birds. Birds, particularly parrots, express similar human needs of love and belonging. The bonds…
Inside the Studio: Monica Coyne
See Coyne’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 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 Metal sculptor Monica Coyne is inspired by the rainforest surrounding her forge shop, a forty-minute…
Inside the Studio: Andrea Rae
See Rae’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8. 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 As she enters her home-based studio in West Lafayette, Indiana, fiber artist Andrea Rae is reminded…
Book Review: Inventing the World
On the Craft of Writing, for All Levels By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor INVENTING THE WORLD: THE FICTION WRITER’S GUIDEBOOK TO CRAFT AND PROCESS by Jack Smith (Serving House Books, 2018). 285pp, $15.95. Jack Smith’s essays on “the craft and process” of writing fiction have appeared since 2010 in either The Writer or in…
Literary Spotlight: Bob Meszaros
From WTP Vol. VI #8 Triangulation By Bob Meszaros Here, where the ice withdrew and the rock spine rose then slowly buckled over time, while the seashells rattle and the white surf beats old boulders into silt, gently, with his fingertips, he traces and retraces letters, numbers, and the triangle inscribed on a bronze disk…