Congratulations, Alexander Klang! recipient of the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award for fine art My subject is analog portrait photography. I am interested in encounters with strangers, usually in unfamiliar places. I am not interested in telling a story about these encounters, nor with artificial staging. I am more interested in natural expressions—the spontaneity of…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
October 2018 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. Taking Stock of Painting Today John Yau from Hyperallergic.com has put together an article that you should definitely read. Reviewing the Painting: Now and Forever, Part III exhibition at New York’s…
WTP 2018 First Place Literary Winner
Congratulations, Cynthia Manick! recipient of the Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award for the literary Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School; she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, the MacDowell Colony, Poets House, and the…
Announcing WTP 2018 Competition Winners!
First Place for both the literary and fine art is being awarded in memory of ~Elizabeth Sloan Tyler – My aesthetics as an editor have been shaped by my mother’s as an artist; I am forever indebted to her for teaching me how to ‘see,’ then how to translate that seeing into my own unique…
Heidi Stauff
From WTP Vol. VI #8 Bird’s Nest Soup By Heidi Stauff Every Mother’s Day, Ren’s husband takes her to The Golden China Buffet with the gift certificate her daughter sends. This year, Jacob still takes her but pays out of his own pocket. “I’m going up for more crab legs. You want anything?” Jacob asks,…
Book Review: Sweet Marjoram
Essays Inspired by Poetry By Joyce Peseroff, WTP Contributing Editor SWEET MARJORAM: NOTES AND ESSAYS by DeWitt Henry (Madhat Press, October 2018). 156pp, $21.95. I don’t usually write about prose, but Sweet Marjoram is an exception. In part, it’s because DeWitt Henry is a dear friend whose work I’ve read for decades. It’s also because…
On Fact and Fiction
Finding Truth in Fiction By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor In the late 1960s, I believed in pure fiction, and as a writer set out to imagine and portray the inner life of working-class characters in my father’s candy factory. I also kept a writer’s notebook on the side, where I vented and mulled about…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor ACTS OF ALLEGIANCE: A NOVEL by Peter Cunningham (New York: Arcade Publishing, September 11, 2018). First North American Edition; 296 pp, $22.99; hardback ISBN 97816287295535; also available as e-book. UK edition: Dingwall, Ross-shire: Sandstone Press, 2017; paperback. “’All men are loyal, but…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
October 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Our highlights for September include not only several virtual visits to artists’ studios, as well as our flagship website reviews, but also our summer roundups from our WTP art correspondents out in the field. We had our inaugural Provincetown roundup by Marni Katz, who was initially covering the Boston area.…
WTP Artist: Naomi Schlinke
“Ink is unparalleled in its fluidity, staining intensity, and transparency.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Naomi Schlinke is a Texas-based artist, whose work has been exhibited at the Robert McClain Gallery in Houston, The Dallas Contemporary, Texas State University in San Marcos, D. M. Allison Gallery in Houston, Women and Their Work, D…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
October 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. The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears An innovative, media-savvy enterprise begun in 2010 by novelist Henriette Power, now Henriette Lazaridis, The Drum beats…
Art Spotlight: Kathryn Shriver
Untitled (Smile) See Kathryn Shriver’s work in WTP Vol. VI #7 hand-woven and embroidered glass beads, faux fur, pumice paste, enamel paint on panel 11” x 7” Despite the continual upending of what art can be, presumptions of what art should be, remain steadfast and continue to be reinforced by categories and biases that run…