June 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. The Cortland Review Founded two decades ago in Cortland, New York, by Guy Shahar, and now edited by Ginger Murchison, this prestigious online quarterly offers:…
Site Review: Jacqueline Dee Parker
Colorful Collages and Negative Space By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Jacqueline Dee Parker is a mixed-media painter and poet. Her website documents a fruitful dialog between these two art forms that are a thread that runs throughout her extensive body of work. Born in New York City and…
Video: Against Self-Sabotage
Performance with Charcoal By Brianna Baurichter See her work in WTP Vol. V #4 “Against Self-Sabotage” is a three-part performance utilizing drawing and dance. Part one consists of covering a space in charcoal. Part two, titled Commune (Intermission), invites viewers to join me in whittling down charcoal to be added to a bowl of water. Part…
Art Spotlight: Aga Gzyl
Sound of the Earth See Aga Gzyl’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 silicone on linen 39″ x 39″ With a degree in architecture, Aga Gzyl worked at a commercial real estate company in Poland for seventeen years, designing interiors and facades for shopping centers and shop windows. She learned to work with an assortment…
Literary Spotlight: Elizabeth Stott
From WTP Vol. V #5 The Perfect Diver By Elizabeth Stott Marjorie swims, her blue hat bobbing like a child’s ball. She repeats her stroke like a mechanical doll. Don is standing at the shallow end, rubbing his hands over his chest and shoulders to keep warm. Overhead, through the glass roof, he can see…
Site Review: William Vollers
Imperfection and Found Objects By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP William Vollers’s website is a reflection of his artistic vision of less is more—few words as necessary to direct the viewer and five images of work that represent how he categorizes his assemblages: Free Standing, Table Top, Wall Hangings,…
Site Review: Antigone Kourakou
“Her style is diametrically opposed to the more literal interpretation of point-and-shoot photography” By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP The homepage of Antigone Kourakou’s website is striking in its simplicity—a single black-and-white photograph of a woman in a full-frontal reclining position. However, there is finally nothing simple about it.…
Brianna Baurichter: Hybridity in Hybrid Form
“I am very interested in hybridity as tool for discovery” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Brianna Baurichter is an artist and curator currently based in the Midwest. Baurichter recently earned her MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art and Design, and has previously studied in Chicago, IL for her BFA and Visual Arts Management…
Art Spotlight: Lisa Bartell
The Child’s Quiet Chair See Lisa Bartell’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 oil on canvas 46″ x 46″ In a way, I’m returning to my childhood habit of staring at wood grain and discovering faces. Each painting begins with a dark hue brushed in various directions creating nebulous forms. Standing back from the canvas…
Literary Spotlight: David Arthur Kay
From Vol. V #4 Runny Yolks By David Arthur Kay “The early bird catches the mother-fucking worm,” the pea coat–covered Ed Lover look-alike says stoically as if to no one, as if to everyone in the Brownsville bodega around the corner from the walk-up apartment from which you departed with just one mission—to get your girl…
Don Bergland: From Paint to Digital
“Anything that could be imagined could be created.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Don Bergland is currently an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Victoria and has been an active exhibiting artist for over fifty years. During that time, he has worked through a variety of professional media, from oil on canvas…