Mind my Other Minds See Rebecca Brodskis’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 oil on canvas 49” x 77” My paintings are an invitation to take part in an oneiric journey, guided by a vague narrative that can be interpreted in multiple ways. I accomplish this by not overworking the details and by not locating the…
Literary Spotlight: Sari Friedman
From WTP Vol. V #7 The Woman at the Window By Sari Friedman Black silhouette of the woman at my window. There whether my eyes are open or closed. Her emotional imprint, the hunched shoulder shape of her longing. She stares out toward the kibbutz’s cows. Waiting for someone or something. You know when you’re…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
September 2017 We’re back! After an August hiatus, we inaugurate fall with WTP Vol. V #7. Don’t miss resin artist Mayme Katz; some unique analog and hand-painted photography; found-object sculpture by Robbii Wessen, and a moving story about life of an American in Israel by Sari Friedman. These are just highlights, so do check out…
A Writer Learns From Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth Offers a Master Class in the Literary Arts By Beth Kephart Beth Kephart, a National Book Award finalist, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of twenty-two books. A partner at Juncture Workshops, she has recently published the illustrated memoir workbook, Tell the Truth. Make It Matter. More about Beth,…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
September 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.[gap height=”15″] Ducts: A Pipeline of Personal Stories Founded in 1999 by Jonathan Kravetz, this New York City–based online journal has undergone a recent makeover, Ducts…
Book Review: Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur
The Inclination to Celebrate Things By Alfred Nicol Alfred Nicol’s most recent collection of poetry, Animal Psalms, was published in 2016 by Able Muse Press. Nicol has published two other collections, Elegy for Everyone (2009), and Winter Light, which received the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, Dark Horse,…
Art Spotlight: Mayme Kratz
Memory Blocks—Autumn Gathering See Mayme Kratz’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 dried corn, cicada exoskeletons, eucalyptus seed pods 2” x 2” Image courtesy of the artist and Littlejohn Contemporary With great reverence for the natural world, Kratz creates cast-resin pieces of fragile beauty locked in fluid, translucent resin. The artist embeds her found objects,…
Literary Spotlight: Emily Mohn-Slate
From WTP Vol. V #7 Thunderstart By Emily Mohn-Slate We’re in the sea when the rain comes hard He runs to shore his legs slick and purposeful to build a canopy of umbrellas over our bags on a cracked plastic chair When he’s done he stands and watches to make sure it doesn’t fall…
Interview: Emilia Dubicki
A Path to Abstract Oils Interview by John Skoyles, Contributing Editor Emilia Dubicki is a Connecticut-based artist. Her paintings are primarily abstract, but sometimes representational imagery is integrated into the work. She shows work nationally and internationally and has received residencies from the I-Park Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center; and the Wurlitzer Foundation. In the summer…
Site Review: Button Poetry
Broadcasting Today’s Best and Brightest Poets By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Although I have been writing poetry since I was two years old, I only first discovered “slam poetry” in college, when a classmate began a slam poetry club, team, and reading series, drawing on performers whom he had met at regional and national high…
Art Spotlight: George Fellner
Illuminopolis See George Fellner’s work in WTP Vol. V #1 pigmented ink print 20″ x 14″ The focus of Fellner’s present work, Imaginary Realms, reveals an endless search for the abstractions of reality, involving the macro photography of stones and crystals. Influenced by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art movements of Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism,…