November 2018 Featured Bookmarks By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Art Papers From their “About” page: “Art Papers is an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that provides an accessible forum for examining, discussing, and documenting the full spectrum…
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Video: Inland Geography
Small Intimacies on Film Video by Mélanie Patris In my search for a larger purpose in life, I found that I was evading the intimacies of my daily life. The desire to address this evasion was to highlight these moments in a movie. The traces here of those moments is what I refer to as my inner geography.” Mélanie Patris is a Belgian photographer, as well as a…
The Painting and Its Frame
A New Perspective on Framed Art By Amy Nawrocki, WTP Guest Writer As an art lover, I like when I’m challenged to see something new. I like to think of myself as open-minded and open-eyed. But sometimes even the most enthusiastic viewer—never mind how knowledgeable she is—has to admit that the element she missed was…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
November 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief If you haven’t yet, do check out the winners of our WTP 2018 literary and fine art competitions, in last month’s issue. Our photography winner Alexander Klang graces our cover with one of his phenomenal analog images, and you can read about how he finds and photographs his subjects…
Art Spotlight: Morten Lassen
Infiltrated M See Morten Lassen’s work in WTP Vol. VI #9 oil and spray on linen 59 1/8” x 59 1/8” My work is abstract and expressive, which means that I don’t use sketches or other kinds of preparatory work before starting on a painting. My paintings develop as I am painting, and I work very…
Bob Sykora
From WTP Vol. VI #9 Anna Alcott at Fruitlands Fruitlands. Harvard, MA. 1843. My notebook is heavy with sky. Red little leaves crumple between my toes, I place them between brown pages pacing out the afternoon. No picnic. No beasts of burden. No beasts at all. The list of NOs sweats off the pages. No…
WTP 2018 Winner: Alexander Klang
“Analog technology is slower, and therefore allows for more of what I like to refer to as an ‘awareness’ while photographing.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Alexander Klang is a photographer who was born in Dusseldorf and works in Berlin. He specializes in analog portrait photography. He is currently enrolled in a two-year…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS: STORIES by May-lee Chai (Durham, NC: Blair, October 23, 2018). 166 pp, $16.95; paperback ISBN 9780932112767. “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most importantly, it finds homes for us everywhere.” —Hazel Rochman…
WTP 2018 Winner: Cynthia Manick
“As a poet, the poem has to be more than a single moment; it has to point to something.” Interview by Joyce Peseroff, WTP 2018 Poetry Judge Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.…
Art Spotlight: Julio Alan Lepez
Icon 3 See Julio Alan Lepez’s work in WTP Vol. VI #9 oil and collage on mdf cutout 36 5/8” x 17 3/8” My work is focused on the human figure. There is always a body, a face. That is the excuse, the starting point. A basis of portraits and poses upon which to experiment. And…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
November 2018 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. Ryan Ridge: Fiction Writer, Poet, Editor Ridge’s site looks offhanded and simplistic at first. “Home” offers a cartoonish line sketch of the back of a…
Dean Kostos
From WTP Vol. VI #9 The Ban By Dean Kostos Excerpted from The Boy Who Listened to Paintings, a forthcoming memoir Home was 413 Wayne Drive. My mother said the four stood for our family, but the thirteen was unlucky. Our clapboard house was one among many on a curving street. In the summer, I’d hear the…