“Structures fall apart and then are reconstructed again.” By Holly Wong In Wong’s work, she has explored many social and political themes central to being a woman and a socially-conscious citizen. However, over the past five years, Holly has taken an increasingly personal and inward journey with her work, integrating non-traditional approaches with more traditional…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Dirt Road New York: Catapult, July 11, 2017 (416 pp; $16.95, US paperback), original ISBN 9781936787500, eBook ISBN 9781936787517. Distributed by Publishers Group West. Great Britain: Scottish publisher Canongate Books. Author: James Kelman The only Scottish author ever to garner the Booker…
Art Spotlight: Don Bergland
Doctrine See Don Bergland’s work in WTP Vol. V #4 digital print 24″ x 30″ Bergland describes his current work as a version of Neosurrealism with the objective of eliciting questioning attitudes in the mind of viewers. He creates his work using both traditional and digital tools, focusing on an integration of 3-D modeling software and…
Literary Spotlight: Frances Park
From WTP Vol. V #4 How We Rock ‘n’ Roll By Frances Park The sky was moody the way moody writers like it, but historically the Fourth of July was supposed to be a sunny rockin’ day—good eats and bad ping pong washed down with Monkey Bay, and bro-in-law’s fireworks show destined to join the others…
Environmental Painting as Landscape
“To simply paint a beautiful image to sell in a gallery, no longer satisfies.” By David D’Agostino See his work in WTP Vol. V #2 The natural landscape never extends beyond the immediate view of the observer. It is always framed, sometimes by a physical intervention like a window, but often by the more psychological design…
Review: Inner Space Ghost Machine
Poetry Responds to Poetry By Charlie Baylis Inner Space Ghost Machine is UK poet Rupert M. Loydell’s pamphlet-length response to US poet Daniel Y. Harris’s “post-human reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s sonnets,” The Rapture of Eddy Daemon. Loydell takes Harris’s poetry and blows it across the stratosphere into a “strange corner” of the universe, replete with “faulty androids,”…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
May 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. Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction Founded by Rebecca Morgan Frank, Robert Arnold, and Brian Green in 2004 in Boston, the biannual, online…
Pain's Parallel Kingdom
Sonya Huber discusses her memoir Pain Woman Takes Your Keys By Richard S. Gilbert We are primitive in our methods, and the nervous system is a mystery. —Sony Huber, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays From a Nervous System, Sonya Huber (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). 177 pp. $13.37.…
Art Spotlight: Rachel Rozanski
Untitled From Project “Entanglements” See Rachel Rozanski’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 charcoal on paper 59″ x 55″ These works are part of a larger series examining biological, geological, and material transformations occurring in the Anthropocene. This catalogue of unidentifiable items born of or morphed by human civilization represents the “imperfect” components that make…
Literary Spotlight: Tracy May Adair
From WTP Vol. V #3 Sisyphus Takes a Cruise By Tracy May Adair Not just any cruise: to a colder place, that respite might encourage me for another eternity. Alaska, albeit summer and unseasonably warm, as if I’d brought my own hell with me. Expectations unmet, yet exceeded. Turned inside out. Hands grasping at glamour,…
Sooo-Z Mastropietro: Painting with Fabric Tubes
“Variables actually help me reach for new challenges and push the limits.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Sooo-Z Mastropietro graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with a BFA in Fashion Design and Textile Design. From textile design, to oil painting, to estate renderings, to playing classical bass in regional symphonies, her philosophy…