by WaterStone Review | Jun 11, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cristina Herrera Mezgravis Where did your inspiration for your fiction piece, “Ninina,” come from? I drew inspiration for “Ninina” from my own relationship with different women in my life—my mother, tías, and abuelas....
by WaterStone Review | Jun 6, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Stephanie Early Green Your fiction piece tells the story of Sabrina, who begins a new job after the trauma of her last one where she was forced into sex work. Where did the idea of “Nojento” come from? Why did you set...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 3, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sasha (Oleksandra) Lavrenchuk Your poems, “Algae” and “Babylon,” blend distinctly sharp images with emotion. How have you honed your writing and editing over the years into these poignant pieces? Thank you,...
by WaterStone Review | May 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Janée J. Baugher Your poem, “Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Goodbye My Love 2008,” blends loss and love in a unique format. What inspired this poem from the painting of Wyeth’s? What made you choose the format of...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 23, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sadie Dupuis What is the story behind your poem, “Most of Last Year and the Years Before It,” that appears in Volume 27? I wrote this poem in March 2024, in response to Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker’s ongoing...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 16, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez Welcome back to Water~Stone! You had a piece last year, “Learning to Live With a Clockwork Orange,” in Volume 26. This year, your poem, “Half-Life of Krill,” puts oceanic and celestial imagery on...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 15, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Sam Stokley What was the spark behind your poem, “Ark/ee/awl/uh/gee,” that appears in Volume 27? The spark was an ancient, buried loneliness that hit me while I was at home on an average day. Other disabled people...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 9, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Pence Your poem, “Red Oak, Black Oak” blends nature and family into a real family tree. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Thank you for these questions, Jenn. I wrote the poem looking out a...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 18, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Rob Arnold Your pair of poems, “Chimera,” speak to growing up, terror, and a cycle of life and death. What was the impetus for these poems? How did they evolve from single poems into a pair? These two...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 11, 2025 | featuredpost
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—April Darcy Your fiction piece, “The Bright World,” is about a daughter losing her father to cancer, and how she’s trying to balance her own life, a complicated friendship, and caretaking. How did this story...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 5, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Anne Piper Your poem, “Already all the ghosts,” is a beautiful and haunting look at pre-grief. The speaker compares their past to the present, and looks ahead into the future. What made you write this poem at this...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 25, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Christopher Gaumer It’s always wonderful to have a graduate of our MFA program in Water~Stone! What sparked the creation of your poem, “On a Farm in Iowa?” Hi, Jenn! It’s wonderful to be close to Hamline again through...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 11, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Davi Gray Your poem, “Caravan of Wounds,” crafts a dramatic setting and builds a world where pain and injury are clearly visible. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? I have consumed a lot of...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 4, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Samantha M. Sorenson Your work, “How to Eat an Elephant” creatively blends the idea of consuming both information and food. Can you talk about what sparked you to write this piece? The journey of writing “How to Eat an...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Albert Abonado Your two poems, “Romance” and “Beatitude for an Inventory of Roadkill,” are beautiful works of reclamation and loss. Where did the creation of “Romance” start? I spend my summers helping out at my...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 18, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—MICHAEL CHANG Your poem, “Orchestra Maneuvers in the Dark,” creates an overlapping conversation and giving of information. Where did the inspiration for this poem come from? The starting point for all of my work...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 14, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Joni Tevis—WSR Contributing Nonfiction Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 15, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Jose Hernandez Diaz—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 14, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: J. D. Debris Your poem, “Song of Solomon” in Volume 26, brings to life vivid images. What sparked the creation of this piece? Appreciate that comment. The poem takes its title from Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, as...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Robert Grunst There’s a beautiful peace in your poem “Blue Aster Seeds” that draws the reader into this moment of watching seeds whirl. I love how it takes a moment—a breath of air and seeds—and creates an entire...
