In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Militello
Your two poems, "Wax Self Portrait/" and "Wax Portrait of a Marriage/" are beautiful short prose pieces. What inspired you to write them? These two pieces are centered around the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini, an 18th-century Italian artist and anatomist who...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Todne Thomas
Your poem, “day of the dead,” tells a story within a multi-generational family structure. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? The inspiration for this poem came from my son. His grandfather died the year before he was born. One day in our...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sheila McMullin
Your poem “Thank You” blends the telling of past histories and the present conflict in a relationship, as well as imaginative statements. What was your inspiration for this poem? What was your process for blending history and imagination? “Thank You” comes from...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Judy Kaber
Your poem that appears in Volume 27, “Cracking the Lid,” is after Lois Dodd’s painting “Lifting the Lid.” What drew you to that painting, and what sparked this piece from it? Do you often find inspiration from art? I love Lois Dodd’s work and often write ekphrastic...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marc Nieson
Your story “American Standards” involves a man balancing his daily corporate job, his aging mother, and his newish relationship. What sparked the creation of this story? Aptly, this story’s ‘spark’ began in a public bathroom when I took note of the...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—G C Waldrep
Your poems, "Night 410" and "Night 550" are from a work titled Plague Nights. What does Plague Nights entail? As with every other writer and artist I know, the lockdowns of the pandemic (spring, summer, and fall of 2020 especially) left me with time and anxious...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Carla Panciera
Your poem “Smart Girls Always Have a Plan” blends math and myth in one of my favorite lines, “Math, after all, is one letter removed / from stories of the gods.” Where did this poem come from? What inspired it? Speaking of myths, this is a bit of a long story....
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jana-Lee Germaine
“February at the Johnsons'” is about a woman going through a divorce. Where did this poem come from? I was right out of college when I married for the first time. It was a disaster, an abusive relationship. That didn’t make leaving any easier, though, because I...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cristina Herrera Mezgravis
Where did your inspiration for your fiction piece, “Ninina,” come from? I drew inspiration for “Ninina” from my own relationship with different women in my life—my mother, tías, and abuelas. Like Nina, I was also once a female teenager growing up in a sexist society...