In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Garrigan
In your poem, “The River, A Ghost,” I love that you give us several fourth-wall breaks that jar us out of the river imagery. When did the inspiration for equating a “river in drought” to struggles with fertility emerge in your writing process? I didn’t start out...
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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...
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Su Hwang
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “The Price of Rice.” How did it come to be? Back when I was putting my manuscript together, I wanted to write a poem honoring my mother’s sacrifices and hardships to balance out (tonally) the other poems highlighting our...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Pearce
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “Closing Time.” How did it come to be? My mother was Jewish, my father was a WASP, and neither was religious. I find ethnicity confusing, and my ethnicity in particular. Since most of our social life came about through my...