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My Chat With Oscar Wilde

Have you tried out that new AI app called NstantAuthor®? I did just now. It allows you to have a conversation with your favorite dead author—or pretend to, anyway. The selection of “virtual authors” ranges from Leo Tolstoy to Jacqueline Suzanne, so you can pick out just about any literary figure you regard as a […]

Now it’s called hybrid—

Writing creatively, based on thinking creatively, can take a lot of different forms. When Wim and I tell stories together, we might have fiction, nonfiction, scripts, quotes from other sources, images, all bundled together as the story unfolds. The arrangement of those parts contributes a way of thinking about it all. We’re delighted to have […]

The Hen’s Tale

The Hen’s Tale a little parallel romance tucked within our story-poem The King and the Beggar Lady, told without words and completely with pictures. Here it is, separated from the main story-poem of The King and the Beggar Lady. Just click right-hand corner of the pages to turn them. Our award-winning little book The King […]

A reading of Wim’s new play, “The Harrowing” …

Coming up in New York on October 2, 2023—a reading of Wim’s most recent play, The Harrowing, at Theater for the New City. Inspired by an episode in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Harrowing is a strange, tender, and terrifying love story. Portions of The Harrowing were originally developed in 2022 as part of the Theatre at St. John’s Cyber Salon, hosted […]

To Look at a Partial Solar Eclipse

don’t turn to the skywith glasses prudently opaquebut downwhere a million little crescent sunsnestle among the shadows of leavesdownwhere the silence burgeons and breaksinto phosphorescent shardsdownwith rapt capitulationand the naked lucidity of eyes. (poem by Wim)

“The King and the Beggar Lady” is an Eric Hoffer Awards Category Finalist!

Our new book The King and the Beggar Lady (written by Wim, illustrated by Pat) is an announced Category Finalist for this year’s Eric Hoffer Book Awards! One of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses, the Hoffer Awards honor “freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit.“ According to the […]

Here on this fleck among the uncountable stars something takes form, eventually to wonder why we are and what to each other.

Those words, my most-often-used artist statement, are about the wonder of life existing at all and how we experience it and what we are to do with it. My fiber works are often a direct expression of the enigma of life itself, and variations on these issues permeate all of my work. The books that […]

The King and the Beggar Lady

An Old Tale for a New Time … This colorfullyillustrated book, now available on Amazon.com (currently in paperback, soon also in hardback), is a new take on a tale dating to Shakespeare’s days—the one about a king who falls in love with a beggar woman. Does he woo her and marry her and make her […]

“The Mad Scene” — prologue to Wim’s award-winning new play

Here is the prologue to my latest full-length play, The Mad Scene, which was just awarded First Place in the Script category of the 91st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.  The Mad Scene has been aptly described as “an Our Town about the Reign of Terror.” I’ve been developing it during the last couple of […]

“The Mad Scene” — prologue to Wim’s new play

Here is the prologue to my latest full-length play, The Mad Scene, which was just awarded First Place in the Script category of the 91st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.  The Mad Scene has been aptly described as “an Our Town about the Reign of Terror.” I’ve been developing it during the last couple of […]