by WaterStone Review | Jul 1, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marie-Elizabeth Mali Your poem, “Mirror,” studies the fascination with underwater life—particularly brain coral—during a first dive. What prompted you to set this poem down on paper? Since that initial dive in Bonaire,...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 24, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Joseph O. Legaspi Your poem, “Weeding/Wedding,” is a beautiful twining of etymology and gardening. What inspired this poem? The poem was inspired by my actually gardening—weeding, to be more precise. I was at Space on...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 17, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Catherine Pierce You have two poems in Volume 26: “I Wonder if the Guy Who Catcalled Me in the Blockbuster Parking Lot When I Was 15 Ever Thinks About That,” and “Perfection™.” These two poems detail separate events,...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 4, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jax Connelly Your nonfiction piece “Not So Soft,” which appears in Volume 26, weaves running, sisterhood, eating disorders, and loss together. Your work is uniquely descriptive—“The ground is violent with leaves,” and...
by WaterStone Review | May 28, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Elise Paschen Your poem, “Divination,” is a gorgeous blend of imagery, myth, and spring welcoming. Where did the spark for this poem come from? Thank you! During the pandemic, our family moved to a house in rural...
by WaterStone Review | May 14, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—luna rey hall Your poem, “wearing a dress for the first time,” is rich with tension. The first phrase, “do you want me to be honest?” carries so much emotional weight. What prompted you to start with this question? i...
by WaterStone Review | May 7, 2024 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jenifer Browne Lawrence Your poem from Volume 26, “Reading Alone in a Square Room,” is a tightly-crafted, highly imagistic piece that leaves readers feeling refreshed. What was the inspiration behind this poem? This...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Levy Your nonfiction piece, “Abscission,” details your grandmother’s life and your relationship with her as she aged. It asks the question what memories we will recall later in life. What prompted you to write...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 16, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Martelli “The Hunter,” is a beautiful poem that uses many sensory images; you bring us to this ideal summer’s eve in the work. When did you first start writing this piece, and where did the spark to write it...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 15, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Melville Your poem “Shelter” in Volume 25 focuses on the experience of two young boys who find a doe trapped in a coyote snare. What was the inspiration behind this poem? How did it come to be? This poem...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 9, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Teri Ellen Cross Davis You have two poems in V26 of Water~Stone, “River Phoenix at 46” and “The Brain Confesses About Those Six Weeks.” With “River Phoenix,” I feel like I get something new from the text every...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez When did you first get the idea to weave your poem about sexual assault and rape with the violent film, “A Clockwork Orange?” I suppose it’s partly because I’m fascinated with that film’s complex...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—A. E. Wynter Your two poems, “Retching,” which deals with generational trauma and generational choices that live within descendants, and “Now & Later,” which examines how people are taught to open themselves at a...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 27, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Danielle Lazarin Your flash fiction piece, “The Math,” is a beautifully-crafted work that compiles so much emotion in just two pages. What prompted the creation of this piece? What made you juxtapose the...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 20, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Katie Yee Your piece, “Pennies Only,” blends the steady life of a relationship with a fantastical gumball machine. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Truthfully, the finding of the gumball machine is...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 13, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Anthony Ceballos Q: One of the lines of your poem, “Glassful of Prayer,” is used as the title of Volume 26—“wreckage of once was.” Where did your own title come from? What was the impetus for you to take readers on...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ryan Habermeyer Your nonfiction piece, Only Matter, juxtaposes the death of a girl you knew with Lenin’s preservation. What was the impetus to blend these ideas together on the page? It was a weird writing experience....
by WaterStone Review | Jan 16, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane—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 | Jan 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Todd Davis Your poem, “Deposition: What Was Lost,” brings grief to the page with gentle, yet visceral, imagery, blending every other phrase with life and death. There’s a very cyclical feeling to the poem with these...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 19, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernie Reynolds In your flash fiction, “The Sergeant’s Daughter,” you’ve built a tightly-knit piece that revolves around a man’s relationship with his to-be wife over the course of 10 years, and her father....
