Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Klara and the Sun: A Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, March 2, 2021; 320 pages; $28.00; ISBN: 9780593318171 hardcover; also available in ebook, audiobook, and large-print formats). Published in the UK by…
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COVID Ennui
“The Earth has had enough of our disrespect.” Video by Susan DiPronio Susan DiPronio lives in Philadelphia and founded “Pink Hanger Presents” dedicated to giving voice to the unique life experiences of women. She is a photographer and writer of poems, plays, and memoir pieces at times combining poetry and prose with stills and film.…
WTP Vol. IX #2
This month: pandemic photography, architectural paintings, fragment art, prose poetry, and more! To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Metal Sculpting
Inside the Studio with Hans Schüle Inside the Studio offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. See Hans Schüle’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #9. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Twelve years ago, Hans Schüle moved from Berlin to a…
Reminiscence of the Present
Rice Paper Painting Video by Loft Films Featuring Ilyas Kassam Ilyas Kassam is known for his large textual paintings on rice paper, that have an explosive yet meditative quality. Almost two dimensional sculptures, these paintings have a strong gestural quality to them. This, in part, is due to his process being performative and intense, implicative…
Grimoire, a New Collection
Cherene Sherrard is a poet, scholar, and essayist, and the Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About her most recent poetry collection, Grimoire (Autumn House Press, 2020), Terrance Hayes writes, “Her ingredients are positively cornucopian, but it’s Sherrard’s keen, enlivening spirit that gives this remarkable book its flavor….[She] shows us how…
The Feminine Gaze
Three Artists and Their Mediums By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze. November 15, 2020 – February, 2021; Flood Gallery; Black Mountain, NC. Despite attempts to contemporize the show with its title Diverse, The Contemporary Female Gaze, on exhibit thru February at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center in Black Mountain, NC,…
Photocollage as Painting
Amy Ragus is a photocollage/mixed media artist who considers herself a painter who uses photo fragments as brushstrokes on a larger field. Her work in photocollage has been exhibited in one-person and group exhibits in the US and abroad. She was a founding partner of Fine Arts Express, Inc. and an assistant professor of Art…
Las Palabras de Aves
The Words of Birds Video by Amy Bobeda Amy Bobeda is an artist living in Colorado finishing her MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at Naropa University. She is the founder of Wisdom Body Collective, an arts collective rooted in embodying the sacred feminine. She works in myth, menstruation, and the space between seen and…
Magical Realism for the Current Reality
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Prayer for the Living: Stories by Ben Okri (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, February 2, 2021; 216 pages; $24.95; ISBNs: 978-1-61775-863-8 hardcover, 978-1-61775-874-4 ebook). Originally published by Head of Zeus in London, October 2019. “We live in…
On Steven Cramer’s "Listen"
An Appreciation By Joyce Peseroff, WTP Contributing Editor Steven Cramer knows his way around a poem more than almost anyone I’ve had the pleasure of listening to. Quote a Dickinson line, and he’ll bring up two examples of how she uses the same diction elsewhere. He’ll find a writer like Robert Walser and re-envision his…
WTP Vol. IX #1
This month: A Daytime Moon Poem, BioArt, reflections on Blake, handwritten drawings and more! To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.