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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Peter Vertacnik
Your poem “The Book” in Volume 23 includes one repetitious line in each stanza that threads the narrative together. What does it say about this man that he refuses to accept separating from his former spouse? What was your intention in writing about divorce and loss?...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributor–Dan Malakoff
Your short story “Bear No Relation” in Volume 23 involves a lot of tension simmering in the narrative. I felt so anxious watching Jane spiral! Can you tell us why you chose a political meet-and-greet cocktail party as the setting for this story? Politics involve a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Joanna Manning
Your flash essay “Sweet Just Yesterday” in Volume 23 is a burst of imagery and sensory details. Can you tell us a bit about your writing process and how you kept this essay so compressed? I write for a living, so I don’t always have the energy to explore the...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Kleber-Diggs
Your poem “EGGSHELLS” in Volume 23 has an interesting origin story. Can you tell us about that? I have been working from home and spending a lot of time with our two dogs (miniature GoldenDoodles Jasper and Ziggy) who enjoy going outside 5 or 6 times a day. When...
A Conversation With Carolyn Holbrook: WSR Contributing CNF Editor
Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
A Conversation With Sean Hill: WSR Contributing Poetry Editor
Water~Stone Review has always been a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger initiative of providing a place for new/emerging and underrepresented...
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Christine Robbins
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. 23 “Hunger For Tiny Things”. Vol. 23 is now available for...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Elizabeth Horneber
Tell us about your CNF piece “Tending to Fires” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the strange things about growing up is that you start to see your parents as regular people. You start to notice their flaws and understand them in ways you perhaps couldn’t...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Stephen Eric Berry
Tell us about your poem “Monster” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? For several years I have been engaged in a series of reading-response rituals based on the sonnets of Shakespeare. The ritual involves writing out each sonnet by hand, recitation of the poem, a...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Majorie Saiser
Tell us about your poem “The Citrus Thief” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the joys of my life is to rock back and forth to summer on the Great Plains and winter in Arizona; the plants and birds of one environment to the plants and birds of the other. Our...