“I’m definitely happier now as a mixed-bag poet.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Terri Witek’s most recent book is The Rape Kit (2018). She is also the author of Body Switch (2016); Exit Island (2012); The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); Courting Couples, a winner of the 2000 Center for Book…
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Hope Jordan
From WTP Vol. VII #1 From the Outside it Was Beautiful 2018 WTP Honorable Mention It wasn’t an apple the princess bit before she fell into sleep. It was a peach. Yellow-fleshed, sun-warmed, sweet juice that ran down her chin as her teeth punctured skin. Submission, lips tickled by tiny hairs – oh, she knew…
The Minefield and the Soul
Notes on Identity and Literature By David Mason, WTP Guest Writer “The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys to the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.” —Czeslaw Milosz “When I was a…
WTP 2018 Winner: Cynthia Manick
“As a poet, the poem has to be more than a single moment; it has to point to something.” Interview by Joyce Peseroff, WTP 2018 Poetry Judge Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), and is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
November 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Ryan Ridge: Fiction Writer, Poet, Editor Ridge’s site looks offhanded and simplistic at first. “Home” offers a cartoonish line sketch of the back of a…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
July 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Adam Scheffler The appeal of Adam Scheffler’s work is reflected by his appearances in scores of literary magazines and the selection of his first collection…
Explicating the Poetic Process
“My writing process saves a fair percentage of time for self-doubt and lack of artistic confidence.” By Amy Nawrocki, WTP Guest Writer It starts with an encounter. There is a notarized mammal, a dead serpent, and a preserved misspelling. Then a mythical flash of inspiration, the grabbing for tool and template, and the clumsy yet…
A Visit With Donald Hall
Where a Poet Lives By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor Donald Hall used to have his own zip code. So prodigious was his correspondence, it overwhelmed the Danbury, New Hampshire, post office where his mail was delivered. Later, his mailing address switched to Wilmot, and he grudgingly obtained an email address for his assistant. But he…
Interview: Poetry in a New America
Poetry in a Polarized Era Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Since the election of Donald Trump, not only the political landscape has changed, but also the way in which that landscape is perceived and addressed by writers, in particular, poets. What follows is a group interview, with poets from diverse backgrounds who contribute often…
Site Review: Talking Writing
“Creating meaning through personal stories.” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Talking Writing, an online literary journal spearheaded by Martha Nichols and Jennifer Jean, aims to provide a home for first-person journalism. Defined on their “About” page as “features told from a personal perspective but underpinned by research and reporting,” first-person journalism, the editors claim, is an…
Site Review: Wally Swist
“Living in a farming area and observing nature…has been my own version of living a Thoreauvian or Franciscan kind of life” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Wally Swist’s works range the gamut—as the author of over twenty collections of poetry, on his website you will find his complete bibliography,…