In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michaela Chairez
Your poem, “On the Eucalyptus Trail” starts off with the powerful sentences, “I tell my friend the city is a whitewashed tomb.” What was the inspiration for this piece? The inspiration behind this piece is based on my hometown. I have a love/hate relationship with the...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kim Blaeser
When was the moment you realized you needed to write “Wars and Small Wars,” your nonfiction piece in V. 28 of Water~Stone highlights the violence that women face on a daily basis? When did the war comparison develop? Honestly, the essay sneaked up on me. Old incidents...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amanda Chiado
“The Carrying Kind” is a beautifully descriptive poem. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? My brother lost his infant daughter, and it is an all-encompassing grief, an unbearable grief, that no one knew how to process or “carry.” I desperately wanted...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Felicia Zamora
You have two poems in Volume 28 of Water~Stone, "lEcogodliness” and “Always Incomplete." In "Ecogodliness," what drew you to use brackets instead of parentheses? In the full collection of poems, Ecogodliness is a series with all the same title. This particular...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Christopher Citro
Your poem, "Why Our Bathtub Sparkles," is about a couple preparing to have guests over—but deeper than that, about connection and community in a shifting world. What inspired this poem? Thank you for this opportunity to respond to your questions and for your reading...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Alice Paige
What inspired your poem, “An Untitled Hunt?” Where did you draw the title from? This poem is centered around the miracle of survival and the expectation of violence and death to be visited upon the creature deemed huntable. The “untitled” aspect of this poem looks to...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
What inspired your poem, "Patriarch"? Thank you for your astute questions about my poem! It is lovely to have great listeners. My inspiration for “Patriarch” was very much influenced by work meetings, whether corporate, academic, or otherwise organizational,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Josh Nicolaisen
Your piece, "Sometimes I Walk Barefoot Through Freshly Tilled Soil," wraps up Volume 27. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Yes, and thank you so much for such a prized spot in the journal. I was truly awed and honored when my copy arrived. I...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Abie Irabor
In your poem, "Movie Star," you create a spotlight of excitement surrounding a parent coming home. What sparked this poem's creation and the comparison of the homecoming to a celebrity? This poem's creation originated from a short story I wrote back in Graduate...