Two Biographies Inform Each Other By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer Reading Calder: The Conquest of Time required an adjustment of my habitual expectations of the reading of Jed Perl’s writing. I always enjoy his incisive critique and deflation of the art “powers that be.” I have spoken with many artists who are part of…
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Stories from the Sierra Zapotec
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Red Ants by Pergentino José, translated by Thomas Bunstead (Dallas: Deep Vellum Publishing, November 3, 2020; 152 pages; $14.95; ISBNs: 9781646050192 paperback, 9781646050185 ebook). First published in 2012 as Hormigas rojas by Almadía Ediciones in Oaxaca…
Found-Object Art in a Historic Home
Inside the Studio with Susan Tabachnick 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 Susan Tabachnick’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #8. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For the past eleven years, mixed-media artist Susan Tabachnick has…
WTP Vol.VIII #9
This month in WTP: phenomenal fiber and pantyhose art, steel installations, exquisite tree photography, poetry, fiction and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
Three Short Poems
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Sandra Kolankiewicz is the author of The Way You Will Go and Lost in Transition (both from Finishing Line Press) and Turning Inside Out…
Still Talking
The Abiding Voice of Toni Morrison By Lisa Zeiger, WTP Guest Writer “You hear the voice of the dead. They’re still talking and they want to be heard. And that, to me, is irresistibly interesting.” —Gore Vidal, on essays, from a BBC interview with Melvyn Bragg, c. 2008 Whenever I read an author I particularly…
A WTP Voice & Vision
The idea for Voice & Vision evolved in our Woven Tale Forum, where members are actively conversing on ways to support each other as writers and artists. These collaborations, where the literary meets the arts, we hope serve as enhancements of these already resonate individual works. — By Heidi Stauff, WTP Video Producer —…
To Fish at Sea
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, December 1, 2020; 336 pages; $27.00; hardcover ISBN 9781635576153). First published in the UK (London: Bloomsbury, February 4, 2020;…
The Virtue of Villains
Shoptalk: A Prose Central Series By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor I evolved shoptalk or notebook sheets during my teaching of fiction workshops, which proved helpful to me and to students. I asked them to ask themselves about character, plot, setting, dialogue, sensory imagery, sentimentality, translation, simultaneous actions and other aspects of craft. But foremost of…
Vol. VIII #8
This month in WTP: Stunning portraits, poetry translations, three-dimensional painting and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
A Fiber Sculptor’s Industrial Studio
Inside the Studio with Sophia Ruppert 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 Sophia Ruppert’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #7. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Seven months ago, Sophia Ruppert moved her studio from the…
The Beggar's Purse
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Pamela Sumners is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer from Alabama, who now writes full-time in St. Louis, MO. A 2018 Pushcart nominee, her…