“I am fascinated by the imperfect perfection in nature.” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Genser plays with paper and paint to explore her obsession with texture, pattern, and color. Evocative of natural forms and organic processes, her work is simultaneously irregular and ordered. She uses paper as pigment and constructs her pieces by…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Wolf Season New York: Bellevue Literary Press, October 10, 2017. 320 pp., $16.99, paperback ISBN: 9781942658306, e-book ISBN: 9781942658313. Author: Helen Benedict Helen Benedict is a prolific writer: seven novels, five non-fiction books, and a play—not to mention numerous essays and articles.…
Video: The Alchemy of Inspiration
What Inspires Me and How I Make it Into Art Video by Bronwen Hazlett ‘The Alchemy of Inspiration’ is a video I made to explain the process I go through to make images for my series ‘Midlife and The Alchemy of My Individuation.’ I begin by photographing the rural landscapes of Delaware that brought peace…
Art Spotlight: Constantine Gedal
Untitled See Constantine Gedal’s work in WTP Vol. V #8 giclee print 10″ x 10″ There are two elements that I employ in my imagery—human being and one’s surroundings. In order to construct image, I follow the travels of a lone soul in the lands of the other, registering views and moments flowing by, observing…
Literary Spotlight: John Skoyles
From WTP Vol. V #8 The Nut File By John Skoyles When I was in college, I worked for the Associated Press at 50 Rockefeller Center in New York City. I sorted mail, typed, and filed documents. One day, I found a fat manila folder labeled, “Nut File.” A reporter told me it was a…
Book Review: The Hidden Machinery
Ore in Every Rift of Livesey’s Apologia and Guide By Dewitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor THE HIDDEN MACHINERY: ESSAYS ON WRITING by Margot Livesey (Tin House Books, 2017). 301pp, paper, $15.95. MFA programs are descendants of the “how to be a successful writer” handbooks in the 1890s (see “Handbooks and Workshops” in Andrew Levy’s 1993…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
October 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. NYU School of Medicine Library: Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database For writers/readers looking for leads to poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art concerning medical encounters and life…
Book Review: Heating & Cooling
Micro-Memoirs of a Life Lived and Imagined By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor HEATING & COOLING: 52 MICRO-MEMOIRS by Beth Ann Fennelly (W.W. Norton & Co, October 2017) 112pp, $22.95. Beth Ann Fennelly, poet, novelist, letter writer, and writing program administrator, tells a large story with her nuanced collection of “52 micro-memoirs,” some a sentence…
WTP Writer: David Hamilton
Poems Discovered More Than Written By Emily Jaeger, WTP feature writer David Hamilton, whose poetry appears in WTP Vol. V #7, is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press), Ossabaw (Salt Publishing), and numerous uncollected essays. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa, where…
Video: Project 911UP
Hope, Healing, and Rebuilding Spirit By Sandra Priest The concrete slurry wall foundation was poured four feet thick, seven stories deep, and secured with cables into bedrock and was to hold back the mighty Hudson River around the original World Trade Center in New York City. It was the only thing left intact after 9/11.…
Interview: Donna Baier Stein
Live at The Algonquin in NYC Interview by Susan Tepper, WTP Contributor WTP contributor Susan Tepper, whose work appears in Vol. V #4, conducts a series of interviews at the Algonquin in New York City. Donna Baier Stein is the author of The Silver Baron’s Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award, Finalist in Foreword reviews 2017 Book of…