November 2017 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. Danielle Legros Georges: Poet The position of poet laureate brings Tennyson to mind, and is an enlightened rebuke to Plato’s concept of banishing poets from…
Video: Post Memory from a Lost Country, Pt 1
Collective and Cultural Trauma Video by Emma Zukovic My work is concerned with Marianne Hirsch’s theory of post memory; the relationship the generation after bears to the collective cultural trauma of those who came before. Being of Macedonian descent, I use film as a means to delve into an exploration of the self and my…
WTP Writer: Richard Hoffman
“I see my younger self in many of today’s young poets.” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry: Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and his new collection Noon until…
Art Spotlight: Katherine Daniels
Pensile Blossom See Katherine Daniels’s work in WTP Vol. V #9 beads and wire 51” x 8” x 5” In a Venn diagram my work occupies a space where painting, sculpture, and craft intersect. An obsessive focus on color and composition are taken from my formal training as a painter. My paintings became sculptures when I…
Literary Spotlight: Paul Corrigan
From WTP Vol. V #9 A Photograph of My Father Fishing By Paul Corrigan My father is sprawled on the ground squeezing out his dripping socks after a day of fishing. His back rests against a cedar tree as he looks away from the camera down at his feet. He wears a green felt hat,…
Gallery Profile: Station Independent Projects
“My aim is to present a variety of work from mid-career artists who I think have a fresh take on their media and themes.” Leah Oates is the founder of Station Independent Projects, a Lower East Side gallery in New York City that opened in September 2012. Prior to opening Station Independent Projects, Oates curated…
Site Review: Teresa Meier
The Fine Art of Montage By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Teresa Meier is a fine art photographer, and her engaging website opens with “The Approach,” a mystical, surreal montage of a woman seated with a suitcase and birdcage afloat in a vast, calm sea. This work from her series The Witness Within, featured in WTP Vol. V…
Art Spotlight: Amy Cheng
Into the Breach See Amy Cheng’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 oil on canvas 36″ x 60″ The artistic lineage I follow is ancient, and has separate roots in the Far East, the Middle East, and the West. In the East, the mandala, which dates from prehistory and continues as a living tradition to…
Literary Spotlight: Joan Frank
From WTP Vol. V #8 Shake Me Up, Judy By Joan Frank The first thing I do these days, when planning travel, is to want not to go. Mortal risk, hindrance. Bad idea. I’m not proud of this unpretty, animal panic, this dumb shuttered obstinacy like a dog’s. There are plenty of reasons for it.…
WTP Writer: John Skoyles
“I think of myself as a poet who writes in other genres.” Interview by August Smith, WTP Feature Writer John Skoyles has published six books of poems, most recently, Inside Job and Suddenly It’s Evening: Selected Poems. His autobiographical novel, A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry, was published in 2014. His work has appeared in…
A Special Sentence Structure
“Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.” By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read by Brooks Landon. Plume: The Great Courses, 288 pp. Brooks Landon wants you to write longer sentences. His belief in them goes against decades of teaching…