A video collaboration between WTP writer Rudy Melena and fine art photographer Amy Kanka Valadarsky. Where the Literary meets the visual arts. read more
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Adverbicide
Must Writers Eradicate Adverbs? By Ann S. Epstein, WTP Guest Writer Ann S. Epstein writes novels, short stories, memoir, craft articles, and book reviews. Her novels include On the Shore (Vine Leaves Press, 2017), Tazia and Gemma (2018), and A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (Alternative Book Press, 2018). Her stories and nonfiction work appear…
Audra Weaser
Seafaring See Audra Weaser’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 acrylic, metallic paint, mixed media on panel 60” x 40” For the past decade, Weaser’s work has focused on nature. She’s interested in creating physically charged images reminiscent of watery landscapes. These abstracted scenes are formed from rhythmic manipulations of pigmented materials. Her process includes…
Beth Adelman
Scenes from Childhood: 1965 From WTP Vol. VII #6 This is the Bronx, and you will find beauty here only unexpectedly. The street names lack resonance; no one dresses with style; the usual complaints are made on the supermarket lines. The absence of things to see kept me indoors when I was young. I…
TERMINATION SHOCKS by Janice Margolis
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Termination Shocks by Janice Margolis (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, April 14, 2019). 192 pages; $19.95, paperback original ISBN 978-1-62534-420-5. “But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What see’st thou else In…
Chekhov’s Masha’s Masha
Interpreting The Seagull Video by Masha Vlasova “In ‘Chekhov’s Masha’s Masha’ I read a short monologue by a character named Masha, in Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull. The play is about actors, writers, theater, the torments of the creative process. It is a play imported from and therefore about Russia. I take up Masha’s monologue as…
John M. Humphries
“Watercolor is to improvise or die.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer John M. Humphries is an artist who grew up in Texas, and teaches architecture and interior design at Miami University in Cincinnati, OH. His artwork has been exhibited in Japan, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United States. He has received several awards,…
My Father Eats Figs
A WTP Voice & Vision: a collaboration where the literary meets the arts. In "My Father Eats Figs," Ruth Knafo Setton's poem is set to the deeply resonate images of photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz. read more
Jacquelyn Shah
From WTP Vol. VII #5 Sometimes By Jacquelyn Shah it doesn’t matter if morning, its course having overtaken the tacking darkness, is lightened suddenly by something small and graceful, a lagniappe in an overgrown lawn—herbertia. It doesn’t matter, the pleasure of espial,…
Raja Oshi
Paintings That Speak to Women By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Raja Oshi is a Sudanese artist now living in South Africa. Her painting is clearly inspired by her life experiences and expresses the oppression, pain, and suffering of Sudanese women. Having grown up in a male-dominated culture of limited opportunities, poverty, and violent abuse of…
Brooklyn
Spring 2019 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. When we were growing up, many of us heard the…
Bentley Meeker
Exploring Light See Bentley Meeker’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 resin, birch, canvas, 3200K LED, and 5600 LED 40” x 40” x 8” These meticulously constructed sculptures comment on the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Meeker’s works scrape down our experience of artificial light to its rawest components. Using contrasting light…