On Paul Bowles: Living the End By WTP Guest Writer Lisa Zeiger “One of these days the future will be here, and you won’t be ready for it.” ― Paul Bowles, The Spider’s House I have wanted to write about Paul Bowles for a long time, and because he is a writer who explores endings,…
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A Winter Scene
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. Eight of Ellen Wilbur’s stories have appeared in The Yale Review. Others have been published by Ploughshares, New Letters, The Georgia Review, The Iowa…
The Art of Non-Measured Geometry
Tom Martinelli was born in New York City. His artwork has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, as well as internationally in Vienna, Austria, London, and Manchester, England. Martinelli, who now lives in New Mexico, has been a recipient of…
Exploring History Through Clutter
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Clutter: An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard (Cleveland, Ohio: Belt Publishing, September 1, 2020; 176 pages; $26.00; hardcover ISBN 9781948742726; distributed by PGW). “But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.” —Anne Lamott…
Blue Meets Orange
Think about them isolated from each other and then bring them together. What would each ask of the other? What is the question? Poetry Prompt from Rachel Eliza Griffiths Let’s do something with color. Select two paintings. Check out an artist’s standard color wheel. Pick one color and then its opposite. Let’s do Blue and…
A Poet and Photographer
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton, 2020), which Edwidge Danticat describes as “radiantly elegiac,” a book “we all need for living, loving, and letting go.” Her other books include Lighting the Shadow, Mule & Pear, The Requited Distance, and Miracle Arrhythmia. Griffiths’ work has appeared in The New Yorker,…
WTP Vol. VIII #7
This month in WTP: forensic photography, environmental fiber art, nylon sculptures, a sunset sonnet, and more! To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.
A Wintry Morning Drive
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. Joseph Hurka attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has published his fiction in numerous literary quarterlies. His memoir, Fields of Light: A Son Remembers…
Surreal Landscapes and Hard Life Lessons
Caitlin Hurd, who was born in the suburbs of Boston, has worked on several public art projects. Her artwork has been shown in more than thirty group and solo shows. She has also been featured in publications such as Hi-Fructose and the New York Post. She founded Spark Portrait, a portrait business in Easthampton, MA,…
Exploration of Color
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. Alayne Spafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the University of Saskatchewan. After studying textiles at Concordia University and the…
Sag Harbor Studio: A Sculptor and Cabinet Maker
Inside the Studio with Mark Webber 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 Mark Webber’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #6. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer More than twenty years ago, sculptor Mark Webber and his…
Voice In and Out of Poetry
Cleopatra Mathis’ After the Body: Poems New and Selected, was published this year by Sarabande Books. In this eighth book of poems, as Michael Collier writes, one discovers “the resolute heart and keen human insights” that have made her one of “our most important and essential poets.” Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, notes her…