In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Pence
Your poem, “Red Oak, Black Oak” blends nature and family into a real family tree. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Thank you for these questions, Jenn. I wrote the poem looking out a picture window in my previous home. I faced 100 acres of woods: in...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Levy
Your nonfiction piece, “Abscission,” details your grandmother’s life and your relationship with her as she aged. It asks the question what memories we will recall later in life. What prompted you to write this piece? I’ve always been a bit preoccupied with memory and...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Martelli
“The Hunter,” is a beautiful poem that uses many sensory images; you bring us to this ideal summer’s eve in the work. When did you first start writing this piece, and where did the spark to write it come from? Thank you so much–both for your generous words and for...
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—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...