In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Kleber-Diggs
Your poem “EGGSHELLS” in Volume 23 has an interesting origin story? Can you tell us about that? I have been working from home and spending a lot of time with our two dogs (miniature GoldenDoodles Jasper and Ziggy) who enjoy going outside 5 or 6 times a day. When...
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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 initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
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 of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
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 recent issue, Vo. 23 “Hunger For Tiny Things”. Vol. 23 is now available for...
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 start to notice their flaws and understand them in ways you perhaps couldn’t...
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 ritual involves writing out each sonnet by hand, recitation of the poem, a...
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 and birds of one environment to the plants and birds of the other. Our...
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 Soul.” In that poem, a corpse and its departed soul are arguing about...
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 nonfiction travel book he was working on about returning to the battlefields...
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 Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland on June 28, 2018. They "never...
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 things thrown aside as soon as they’re gained (i.e., success abandoned). I...
