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...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 9, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Bernard Ferguson Tell us about your poem “The Weekend” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? It came, firstly, as a response to SZA’s song “The Weekend,” leaking like syrup into my ear, on repeat, for what felt...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 1, 2020 | blog: all
AWP 2020: Giddy Up, San Antonio! It’s that time of year again when we all start to prep and plan out the most important thing about AWP—our conference clothes! I’m kidding of course, but it’s no secret that the stakes can feel high about what to wear at the biggest...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 10, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Laura Theobald Benda Tell us about your CNF piece “The Coward” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? This piece actually began 10 years ago, during the Hamline summer writing workshop. The visiting professor asked...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 27, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Alexander Zitzner Tell us about your poem “Some Exorcisms That Lead Away from Forgetting” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I have two memories of this poem in its early stages. One being that I was able to...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 13, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–G.Bernhard Smith Tell us about your fiction piece “Bliss” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I have friends who own a boat. It is docked near the Raspberry Island Bandshell, a spot where many outdoor weddings...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 30, 2019 | blog: all
Tell us about your poem “My Black Boy Dead” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “My Black Boy Dead” 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 Detroit...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 16, 2019 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Cherene Sherrard Tell us about your CNF piece “Isle of Refuge” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? A few years ago, I was in Bermuda over spring break researching the life of Mary Prince, an abolitionist from...
