by WaterStone Review | Aug 12, 2019 | blog: all
With the last month of summer upon us, it seems like the right time to check into the production of Volume 22. In May, after the editorial board and their faculty editors made their final selections, production began in earnest with an initial Design + Concept...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 22, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem, “Landmannalaugar,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? When I was in college, I spent a week in Iceland as part of a study abroad program through my conservative Christian university. Our guides took us to this beautiful, remote hot spring...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 8, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “Necropsy.” How did it come to be? This poem came about from reminiscing about a class I took in undergrad. I got my bachelors in Animal Science and the coursework included taking a class called Equine Science. Part of the...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 25, 2019 | blog: all
In a break from our normal protocol, we present this special In The Field featuring Elaine Ford. WSR published Ford’s piece “Briggate” posthumously, as submitted for consideration by her husband Arthur Boatin. In the following Q&A, Arthur has...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 19, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “Panels from a Celestial Autumn.” How did it come to be? It’s an invented form where each section or ‘panel’, as in a polyptych in painting is a separate voice but the sections hang together as part of a larger whole. I began...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 12, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your CNF piece, “Preserves,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? Structurally, “Preserves” tells the true story of my experience learning to preserve food through canning. That straightforward narrative arc serves as a container to hold less...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 3, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece, “For Ángel, The Ocean,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? Someone close to me struggled with substance abuse, and it’s very hard to know what to do in that situation. You want to help and be there for them, but where is the line...
by WaterStone Review | May 28, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem “Coulee Kids” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? This poem is a commentary on the community where I grew up in western Wisconsin. I started writing it after hearing about the passing of the woman I mention in the poem, who was the mother...
by WaterStone Review | May 21, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your essay, “Memory Palace,” from Volume 21. How did it come to be? I wrote “Memory Palace” to explore my experience of teaching poetry to older adults with memory loss, as well as the way memory has shifted in my own life through parenting a young...
by WaterStone Review | May 13, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece in Volume 21, “Double Jack Slip Jig.” How did it come to be? Moseman “Double Jack Slip Jig” is the opening chapter of a novella, Snippet, that I wrote to inhabit/explore the aftermath of a murder-suicide. Before Google, the only...
by WaterStone Review | May 6, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun” and “O Pie of Grace.” How did they come to be? “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun”: I was frustrated with sea-green, forest-green, mint-green. There are so many greens! Description is so hard! I...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 30, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem, “Dream Rematerialized in Bangladesh,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? I really did have a dream in which long threads that extended from my mother’s tongue were stitched through my fingertips. She spoke, my hands typed. I was her...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 22, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems, “The Very Short Story of Your Knuckles” and “After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the Park Said: “I Can Tell You Learned Those on the Inside.”,” in Volume 21. How did they come to be? “After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 15, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem, “Hummingbirds of the World,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? I’ve been admiring hummingbirds since I was a kid. Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to view them in the wild, and I’ve spent time researching their feats of strength and...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 8, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your CNF piece, “Weekly Specials,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? My family moves around a lot, and one of the discussions we have about that is over what stores are present and which are missing. I feel it brings a bit of stability to be able...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 26, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your CNF pieces in Volume 21: “Punk House,” “Two Piece,” and “The Basin Set.” How did they come to be? I wrote “Punk House” at a small poetry retreat up in Washington, on the coast. I went with two women I was only loosely acquainted with. There was...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 22, 2019 | blog: all
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)’s annual Conference & Bookfair is the largest literary conference in North America and one of the biggest events on the calendar for writers, publishers, editors, teachers, and students. It’s a feast of...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 18, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece, “The Harlow Postcards,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? As an Iowan by birth I had always been interested in the actress Jean Seberg, another native Iowan, and created an imaginary interview with her. I knew nothing about...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “That Far North” and “Drought.” How did they come to be? Both “That Far North” and “Drought” are typical and not-typical for me. Many of my poems arise from particular and beloved landscapes, and these two definitely do: the...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 5, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “My Boss Tells Me She Prays for Me” and “When I Say There Is Desire.” How did they come to be? “My Boss Tells Me She Prayers for Me” is actually a true story. I worked in her office as an assistant and spent most of my time at...
