by WaterStone Review | Nov 16, 2020 | blog: all
A Conversation With Carolyn Holbrook: WSR Contributing CNF Editor Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 9, 2020 | blog: all
A Conversation With Sean Hill: WSR Contributing Poetry Editor Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 26, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Christine Robbins In The Field is a blog series devoted to highlighting the writing life and artistic process of our contributors. This week we continue with our series now featuring contributors from our most...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 12, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Elizabeth Horneber Tell us about your CNF piece “Tending to Fires” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the strange things about growing up is that you start to see your parents as regular people. You...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 6, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Stephen Eric Berry Tell us about your poem “Monster” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? For several years I have been engaged in a series of reading-response rituals based on the sonnets of Shakespeare. The...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 28, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Majorie Saiser Tell us about your poem “The Citrus Thief” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the joys of my life is to rock back and forth to summer on the Great Plains and winter in Arizona; the plants...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 21, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Mitchell Jacobs Tell us about your poem “Dialogue Between Colander and Self” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? In a Middle English class, I had been comparing manuscripts of a medieval “Debate between Body and...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 14, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Kevin Lanahan Tell us about your cnf piece “There Is a Light” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? Years ago, a friend I’d met at the Bread Loaf writers conference visited. He was showing me sections of a...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 9, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jeanette Beebe Tell us about your poem “[TK]” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “[TK]” is a broken sonnet. It’s dedicated to the journalists who kept working during and after the mass shooting at The...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 17, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Tessa Livingstone Tell us about your poem “The Mystic Explains” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “The Mystic Explains” was inspired by my favorite Tarot card, the Eight of Cups, which is said to represent...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 4, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Ed Bok Lee Tell us about your fiction piece “The Ferryman” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? This short story about a group of Asian American friends (from all different cultural and ethnic backgrounds) is one...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 20, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Morgan Grayce Willow Tell us about your CNF piece “(Un)document(ing)” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I had been trying to come to terms with my own complicity in the theft of land from Native peoples. Each...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 6, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Purvi Shah Tell us about your poem “Moving houses, Maya pumps a music that cannot offer” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? In some ways, I have an unusual New York City story – which is that I’ve lived in my...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 30, 2020 | blog: all
The Art of the Book Review, By Stan Sanvel Rubin Earlier this year, we began to mull over the idea of highlighting the creative process of our poetry and CNF book reviewers, Stan Sanvel Rubin and Barrie Jean Borich. We wanted to devote a space to allow these long time...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 22, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Juan Morales Tell us about your fiction piece “The Saddest Song” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? The piece is based on a real grad school experience when I taught one of my first classes in a theater...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 2, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Revisiting a Conversation With Gabrielle Civil From Gabrielle Civil: “My Black Boy Dead” (Vol. 22) emerged from a kind of haunting. Although the poem resonates with recent anti-black violence, it came from a state of emergency in my youth. I grew up in...
by WaterStone Review | May 5, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jeremy Griffin Tell us about your fiction piece “Where Strays Might Find Comfort” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? My wife and son and I live in South Carolina. Behind our house is a small duck pond, and...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 21, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michelle Bonczek Evory Tell us about your poem “Becoming American” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I was lucky to grow up less than a mile away from both sets of my grandparents. I saw them all the time;...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 6, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–April Gibson Tell us about your poem “Coldwater” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I wrote the first draft of this poem in 2014 during my time in the Loft Mentor Series. We were having a workshop with one of...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 23, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Marlin Barton Tell us about your fiction piece “Reading Aloud” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? Just as the character in the story does, I read to my mother when she was in a nursing home for the better part...
