Poetry by Mississippi Laureate Video by Beth Ann Fennelly, see her work in Vol. IV #8 Step inside “The Kudzu Chronicles.” As the poet reads her book-length poem, you learn more about her than you may know about your closest friend. Subsidized by United States Artists. In December 2002, Beth Ann Fennelly was among only…
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Literary Spotlight: Joyce Peseroff
Boot Found on the Side of the Road See her work in Vol. IV #8 Joyce Peseroff is a valued contributing editor to The Woven Tale Press. Her fifth book of poems is Know Thyself. She is also the author of The Hardness Scale, A Dog in the Lifeboat, Mortal Education, and Eastern Mountain Time.…
Book Review: Grabbing the Apple
An Anthology of New York Women Poets By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor Edited byTerri Muuss and M.J. Tenerelli JB Stillwater Publishing The foreword to Terri Muuss and M.J. Tenerelli’s anthology of poems by New York women poets, Grabbing the Apple, could have been written forty years ago. “In response to the glaring lack of parity…
Site Review: The Art of Poetry Video Repository
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky on Poetry By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Boston University’s The Art of Poetry Video Repository allows those with a thirst for all things poetry to learn about the masters from Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. An archive of videos recorded for Pinsky’s EdX and Massive Open Online course (MOOC), The Art of Poetry…
Site Review: The Poetry Conversation
Poet Sharon Bryan in the Cyber Arena By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor The first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sharon Bryan’s new website, The Poetry Conversation, is generosity. An award-winning author of four collections of poetry, Sharp Stars, Flying Blind, Objects of Affection, and Salt Air as well as a professor of…
From Novelist to Poet
On Logophilia and Process By Stephen Mead See his work in Vol IV. #7 Just as some have a natural proclivity for math or sports, I have had one for actual words since an early age. “Chrysalis” was a particular favorite, the name of an old Jethro Tull record – I remember the icon on the…
Literary Spotlight: Tess Barry
Emptied of All But Wildness See her work in Vol. IV #7 Running past an urban field emptied of all but wildness, I see a scattered patch of bricks, sprawling weeds grown brown and tall and in among them glimpse some purpled heads of summer clover. They bend and blow toward me. A single Queen…
Book Review: Versed by Rae Armantrout
Judging by the Blurb By Joyce Peseroff, Contributing Editor I’m writing for the first time about a book I haven’t finished yet. My friend Sharon Bryan recommended Rae Armantrout’s Versed, and I’m enjoying a precision as sharp and startling as the plunge of a needle in Armantrout’s spare, tight lines. Who expects “mass market” to follow…
Interview: Jean Valentine
“I want [my poetry] to take off the diver’s mask.” Interview by Nancy Mitchell, Plume Poetry Originally published in Plume Poetry. Saturday morning, June 4, 2016, Schumaker Pond, Salisbury, Maryland. Our conversation began the last morning of Jean’s four-day visit to our house in Maryland. Because we spent most of our time in the company…
WTP Vol. IV #7
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Works by Press Arts Editor Richard Malinsky
Passages and Paint See more of Malinsky’s work here. Passages is a series of 9 Images by Richard Malinsky. each work is 20″ x 30″ on Arches paper Music by Francesca R. Raffi Produced by Globeunityart for The Campaign ‘Art for the Artists’ globeunityart@libero.it Copyright 2014 Richard Malinsky As a second generation, color-based abstractionist, what sets Malinksy’s work apart from…