Pamela Sumners Pamela Sumners is a constitutional and civil rights attorney, with a special interest in religion cases. A native Alabamian, she has litigated against Roy Moore, Jay Sekulow, Bill Pryor, and a governor who argued that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to Alabama. She has published her work with about twenty magazines and…
WTP 2018 Third Place Fine Art Winner
Jeremy Ackman I see photography as documenting the life around me. I started photographing my daily commute to work on the subway. From there to documenting my family, as a stay-at-home father I’ve been focusing on my daughter growing up and the world around us. By concentrating on my surrounding environments there is a bigger…
Art Spotlight: Sky Kim
Illusion See Sky Kim’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 archival pigment print 24” x 17.5” Echoes of Shadow is a series focused on outsiders, those not accepted by others. In this series, Sky Kim seeks to convey the “soundless voice” of the marginalized: “People and places that go unnoticed (because we choose not to pay…
WTP 2018 Second Place Literary Winner
Rachel Michaud Rachel Michaud is a prize-winning poet and essayist. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post and the Hartford Courant, and heard on WAMC-Northeast Public Radio. Recently, her poetry was included in the anthology Birchsong, v. II (Blueline Press, 2018). Rachel made her living as a literacy teacher, and later as a…
WTP Artist: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
Photography Inspired by Painting Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel grew up in Paris and London before relocating to the United States. She studied international law, then in 1997 decided to dedicate herself full-time to photography. Influenced by her late mother’s sculptures and her husband’s paintings and films, she worked on…
WTP 2018 Second Place Fine Art Winner
Laura J. Bennett Umbilicus is a conceptual depiction of my life as both artist and mother. The spherical form is an element I have referenced in my work throughout my career. I sculpt spheres and build ‘sets’ in my studio, sometimes adding collected objects. The canvas backdrops are sourced from scanned antique glass negatives. I…
WTP 2018 First Place Fine Art Winner
Congratulations, Alexander Klang! recipient of the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award for fine art My subject is analog portrait photography. I am interested in encounters with strangers, usually in unfamiliar places. I am not interested in telling a story about these encounters, nor with artificial staging. I am more interested in natural expressions—the spontaneity of…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
October 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Taking Stock of Painting Today John Yau from Hyperallergic.com has put together an article that you should definitely read. Reviewing the Painting: Now and Forever, Part III exhibition at New York’s…
WTP 2018 First Place Literary Winner
Congratulations, Cynthia Manick! recipient of the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award for the literary Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School; she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, the MacDowell Colony, Poets House, and the…
Announcing WTP 2018 Competition Winners!
First Place for both the literary and fine art is being awarded in memory of ~Elizabeth Sloan Tyler – My aesthetics as an editor have been shaped by my mother’s as an artist; I am forever indebted to her for teaching me how to ‘see,’ then how to translate that seeing into my own unique…
Heidi Stauff
From WTP Vol. VI #8 Bird’s Nest Soup By Heidi Stauff Every Mother’s Day, Ren’s husband takes her to The Golden China Buffet with the gift certificate her daughter sends. This year, Jacob still takes her but pays out of his own pocket. “I’m going up for more crab legs. You want anything?” Jacob asks,…
Book Review: Sweet Marjoram
Essays Inspired by Poetry By Joyce Peseroff, WTP Contributing Editor SWEET MARJORAM: NOTES AND ESSAYS by DeWitt Henry (Madhat Press, October 2018). 156pp, $21.95. I don’t usually write about prose, but Sweet Marjoram is an exception. In part, it’s because DeWitt Henry is a dear friend whose work I’ve read for decades. It’s also because…