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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marie-Elizabeth Mali
Your poem, “Mirror,” studies the fascination with underwater life—particularly brain coral—during a first dive. What prompted you to set this poem down on paper? Since that initial dive in Bonaire, in December, 2000, I’ve wanted to describe the wonder I felt at...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Teri Ellen Cross Davis
You have two poems in V26 of Water~Stone, “River Phoenix at 46” and “The Brain Confesses About Those Six Weeks.” With “River Phoenix,” I feel like I get something new from the text every time I read it. What inspired this poem’s creation? As a teen, I had a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez
When did you first get the idea to weave your poem about sexual assault and rape with the violent film, “A Clockwork Orange?” I suppose it’s partly because I’m fascinated with that film’s complex reputation in popular culture. Many people find it when they are young...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—A. E. Wynter
Your two poems, “Retching,” which deals with generational trauma and generational choices that live within descendants, and “Now & Later,” which examines how people are taught to open themselves at a young age to experiences they don’t want, are beautiful,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Danielle Lazarin
Your flash fiction piece, “The Math,” is a beautifully-crafted work that compiles so much emotion in just two pages. What prompted the creation of this piece? What made you juxtapose the narrator’s agony of slowly losing a partner with mourning the house she...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Katie Yee
Your piece, “Pennies Only,” blends the steady life of a relationship with a fantastical gumball machine. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Truthfully, the finding of the gumball machine is actually completely based in real life. It was 2020, at...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Anthony Ceballos
Q: One of the lines of your poem, “Glassful of Prayer,” is used as the title of Volume 26—“wreckage of once was.” Where did your own title come from? What was the impetus for you to take readers on this poem’s journey? A: One February day, I was faced with a blank...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ryan Habermeyer
Your nonfiction piece, Only Matter, juxtaposes the death of a girl you knew with Lenin’s preservation. What was the impetus to blend these ideas together on the page? It was a weird writing experience. For a very long time I tried and failed to write about my friend’s...
A Conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor
Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented voices...