Lost Photograph From WTP Vol. VII #7 I wish I knew what happened to the photograph of my father and me that my younger brother took when we were in our twenties, maybe still in college, home for Thanksgiving. We were helping our father cut firewood, a ritual since we were boys, though back then…
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Summer 2019 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, 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. While touring through some new and some familiar galleries in…
Amy Bennett
“For each painting I create a miniature 3-D model to serve as still life and a stage on which I develop scenes.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Guest Writer Amy Bennett is an American artist who lives and works in Cold Spring, NY. Her paintings have been shown at numerous national and international solo exhibitions,…
Personal History and the Power of Repetition
A Poetry Prompt from Nathan McClain Using as a template Gregory Pardlo’s “Written by Himself” (from his book Digest), in which variations of “I was born” begin many of the lines, McClain asks his writing students to introduce themselves via the poetic method of repetition known as anaphora, with a repeated phrase of their own…
Etsuko Ichikawa
Vitrified 6618 See Etsuko Ichikawa’s work in WTP Vol. VII #7 glass pyrograph and watercolor on paper 30” x 45” Burnt Paper Drawings In these works, molten glass is used as a fiery paint scorching the surface of velvety, cast cotton paper. Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multimedia artist whose working media varies broadly,…
INDIGENOUS LITERATURES FROM MICRONESIA edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019. 384 pages; $90.00 hardback, ISBN 9780824875411; $30.00 paperback, ISBN 9780824877460). New Oceania Literary Series editor: Craig Santos Perez “Even…
Nathan McClain
“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…
Jo Stealey
Forest See Jo Stealey’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 Currently “Forest” is comprised of more than fifty trees and tree parts and more than 750 cast paper rocks. It includes handmade paper, river willow, and pigment.This site-specific installation has been shown at a variety of venues. At each venue some elements are removed, others…
Jen Bradley
“Drawing has become an intuitive way to process information and concentrate for me” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Jen Bradley is a painter and printmaker whose work has been exhibited in the United States, and is held in public and private collections in America and abroad. In 1994, Bradley began routinely drawing at…
E. J. Evans
The Sleeper Agent From WTP Vol. VII #6 You have been placed by birth in a strange country, among strange people, where you are intended to play a crucial role though no one yet knows what that will be. Keep in mind the name you’ve been given is an alias. Grow up, learn the local…
Henry Jackson
“I now fight the compulsion to look for anything familiar.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer A resident of San Francisco, Henry Jackson has exhibited his abstract paintings nationally and internationally. His work is part of the permanent collection of the De Sassait Museum in Santa Clara and the Boise Art Museum in Idaho,…