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 us to write about an article of clothing that was special to us, and the...
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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 take a graduate-level poetry workshop last year, and after going over this...
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 occur. One day my friends told me they’d been sitting on their boat,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Gabrielle Civil
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...
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 the nineteenth-century. I couldn’t stop thinking about how this fantasy...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Erika Wurth
1. Tell us about your fiction piece “Jim” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I had a short story collection that was evolving for years and finally it evolved into a cesspool of a novel. I knew it was, and so I ended up revising it, but that’s one of the pieces...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors-Steve Castro
Tell us about your poem “Mother” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I came across Warsan Shire’s epigraph from her poem “The House” that I used in my poem “Mother” via an AFREADA x Africa Writes Competition in which we were asked to use her line “Mother says there...
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Bao Phi
Tell us about your poem “Run the Jewels” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I had read, several times, of the horrific lynching of Chinese in Los Angeles in 1871, but was surprised that there was so little awareness of it in the American consciousness. In a way,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jeff Oaks
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. 22 “Tending to Fires". Vol. 22 is now available for sale...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Keith Lesmeister
For twenty two years, Water~Stone Review has been a collaborative passion project of students, faculty, and staff. For our next issue, we are bringing a new team member to the process with hope of expanding our chorus of voices in our pages as well as our reach and...
Bodega, by Su Hwang, Reviewed by Robyn Earhart
Reviewed by ROBYN EARHART (Much gratitude to Milkweed Editions for sending me an early copy of Su’s work to review.) Su Hwang is a bit of a legend in the Twin Cities literary community. Poetry Asylum cofounder, recipient of the inaugural Jerome...
