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—Tara Westmor
The following interview was conducted between contributor Tara Westmor and assistant poetry editor Larissa Larson. Your poem “Mother, Ankle Deep” in Volume 25 focuses on the cultural and natural definitions of gender and how this perpetuates throughout generations...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rachel Finn-Lohmann
Your short story “Squeaky” in Volume 25 is about a teacher who torments a sixth-grade student in his classroom. What was the inspiration behind this story? How did it come to be? The story is based on a real experience I had when I was a sixth-grader. It’s something I...
Heartworm by Adam Scheffler, Reviewed by Robyn Earhart
Heartworm Adam Scheffler Moon City Press 2023 ISBN: 978-0-913785-60-7 70 pages Adam Scheffler’s second poetry collection Heartworm, winner of the 2021 Moon City Poetry Prize, is a bewildering cacophony of subject matters—small or grand, turned over and studied with...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cole W. Williams
I always like to start these interviews off by learning about the inspiration behind the writing. In “On Thelma & Louise”, your short essay published in Volume 25, you wrote about a woman who watches the 1991 film alone “to see if the screenplay actually mentions...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Melville
Your poem “Shelter” in Volume 25 focuses on the experience of two young boys who find a doe trapped in a coyote snare. What was the inspiration behind this poem? How did it come to be? This poem describes a true event. I grew up in small town Nebraska, and was...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Eva Song Margolis
The illustration credit belongs to Dain Suh, courtesy of NPR. Dain Suh is a New York-based art director, illustrator, and digital content creator. You can learn more about Suh's work via their website. Your poem “A Pantoum for Family” that was published in Volume 25...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Annie Trinh
Your short story “Observation Notes on the Effects of the Vespa Mandarinia” from Volume 25 is about an entomologist battling an infestation of killer hornets in Seattle. What was the inspiration behind this story? How did it come to be? First, I just want to say thank...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Patrick Cabello Hansel
The featured image was taken from a broadside created by Nick Wroblewski displaying Roy McBride’s poem “Lilac Week” for the Powderhorn Writer’s Festival. Your poem “Lilac Time Minneapolis, May 2020” published in Volume 25, reflects on the uprising in the days after...
Smog Mother by John Wall Barger, Reviewed by Robyn Earhart
Smog Mother John Wall Barger Palimpsest Press 2022 ISBN: 9781990293214 91 pages Smog Mother, John Wall Barger’s sixth collection of poetry, begins with an epigraph from the 1959 French New Wave film Hiroshima Mon Amour, written by Marguerite Duras: SHE: The...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—J.G. Jesman
In “Mr Chilombo’s Wife”, your short story published in Volume 25, the narrator describes the goings-on of her day as we begin to see that something is off in the relationship between her and her husband. How did the idea for this story originate? Over the phone, a...