by WaterStone Review | Feb 13, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Patrick Cabello Hansel The featured image was taken from a broadside created by Nick Wroblewski displaying Roy McBride’s poem “Lilac Week” for the Powderhorn Writer’s Festival. Your poem “Lilac Time Minneapolis, May...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 17, 2023 | blog: all
Smog Mother John Wall Barger Palimpsest Press 2022 ISBN: 9781990293214 91 pages Smog Mother, John Wall Barger’s sixth collection of poetry, begins with an epigraph from the 1959 French New Wave film Hiroshima Mon Amour, written by Marguerite Duras: SHE: The...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 3, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—J.G. Jesman In “Mr Chilombo’s Wife”, your short story published in Volume 25, the narrator describes the goings-on of her day as we begin to see that something is off in the relationship between her and her husband....
by WaterStone Review | Dec 13, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes Congratulations on your Pushcart nomination for your fictional story “Drowning in shallow water is our only escape” in Volume 25! What was the process like for you while writing this unique...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 29, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ty Chapman Congratulations on being nominated for the Pushcart Award for your poem “Pantheon” in volume 25. This poem speaks not only to the multifaceted layers of oppression Black people face, but also to their...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 27, 2022 | blog: all
What do you hope to achieve while working as the Fiction Contributing Editor with Water~Stone Review (WSR) for v. 26? My hope is to discover new voices and communities and to encounter writing that surprises me. I remember what it was like to open my first acceptance...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 20, 2022 | blog: all
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 of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented voices...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 17, 2022 | blog: all
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 of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented voices...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 11, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Melissa Crowe Your poem “Lessons” in Volume 24, lists a series of shocking events that a young person witnessed from extended family members. How has your childhood shaped your poetry? This is a big question! I want...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 4, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Zibiquah Denny I really enjoyed your creative nonfiction piece “The Buckskin Dress” in Volume 24 which tells the history of your family through the usage and the making of a dress sewn by your grandmother. Why did you...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 26, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ramsey Mathews Your poem in Volume 24, “Cold Sweet Tea on a Slow Afternoon at the Waffle House” is visceral and poignant due to the terrifying situation you describe. It is written in direct, clear language. What was...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 12, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Mona Susan Power Your fictional short story in Volume 24, “Iktomi Spins a Web” is a fresh take on Iktómi, a trickster spider from Dakota and Lakota traditions. What was your intention behind creating a new story with a...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 30, 2022 | blog: all
Constellation Route Matthew Olzmann Alice James Books 2022 ISBN: 9781948579223 114 pages There is a picture of the moon that I like to keep on my phone. It’s not a great picture in terms of its quality, nor is the subject matter (the moon) anything unique. The photo...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 16, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Prageeta Sharma The featured image is by Barnett Newman, Untitled (1945) In your poem “The Restoration” in Volume 24, the speaker questions why they continue to “lurch into the structures of emotional hand-me-downs,”...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 3, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—W. Todd Kaneko There’s a sweetness of presence in your poem “Horsepower” as well as a complexity in a singular moment which I found intriguing. You take us on a journey through the simple observation of a cluster of...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 19, 2022 | blog: all
Splendid Anatomies Allison Wyss Veliz Books 2022 ISBN 13: 9781949776119 191 pages Allison Wyss’s debut book, Splendid Anatomies, collects sixteen short stories that explore themes of physical and emotional boundaries, identity, dissolution, and dismemberment. But...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 28, 2022 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kimberly Blaeser This interview has been shortened. For the full interview, including information about Kimberly Blaeser’s activist work, please click this link: full interview. The title of your poem in Volume 24...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 20, 2022 | blog: all
Meet the Editors: Incoming Managing Editor, Rachel Guvenc For twenty-five years, Water~Stone Review has been a collaborative passion project of students, faculty, and staff. Creative Writing Programs staff member, Meghan Maloney-Vinz serves as the journal’s executive...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 13, 2022 | blog: all
Shade of Blue Trees Kelly Cressio-Moeller Two Sylvias Press 2021 ISBN 10: 1948767147 ISBN 13: 9781948767149 100 pages In Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s debut poetry collection, “Shade of Blue Trees,” this expert scene-setting writer takes the readers through a gallery of...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 6, 2022 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—T.N. Eyer In your short story “Date of Death” from Volume 24, you write about a fictional world, very like our own, except that people are knowledgeable about their time of death. This is an interesting concept. How...
