Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome by Susan Levenstein, MD (Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, May 21, 2019. 270 pages; $16.95; paperback original ISBN 978-1-58988-139-6.) Paese che vai, usanze che trovi. (When in Rome, do as the…
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David Wheldon
Strait-Jacket and Padded Cell From WTP Vol. VII #6 Late one night I was stitching up a young schizophrenic man in a locked ward. It was a long but superficial wound: he had got hold of a broken bottle and had slashed his left forearm. It was the commonest injury in the hospital, at least,…
Chehalis Hegner
Fallen Soldier Sheltering Juvenile Planet See Chehalis Hegner’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 editioned print, available in various sizes archival inkjet print on museum grade cotton rag paper “Twenty years ago, I lost the use of my left eye due to an infection. Doctors said I might lose sight in my right eye, too.…
Jo Stealey
See Stealey’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Fiber artist Jo Stealey is thrilled to enter a new phase in her life. On…
On Aphorisms
From Richard Kostalanetz’s A Writer’s Torah A Selection by DeWitt Henry, WTP Prose Editor Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz’s work in several fields appear in various editions of Readers Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Webster’s Dictionary of American Writers, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature,…
Simon Perchik
“It’s When” From WTP Vol. VII #6 It’s when you widen your lips that the air hasn’t the strength to say it has nothing left only the word for cars moving slowly one behind the other —it’s useless —it’s also November and she is dead and the rain smells from the word that let the…
A Visual Reading
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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…