In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Catherine Pierce
You have two poems in Volume 26: “I Wonder if the Guy Who Catcalled Me in the Blockbuster Parking Lot When I Was 15 Ever Thinks About That,” and “Perfection™.” These two poems detail separate events, but there’s a kinship of perseverance in both of them. When crafting...
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In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kimberly Blaeser
This interview has been shortened. For the full interview, including information about Kimberly Blaeser’s activist work, please click this link: full interview. The title of your poem in Volume 24 “Onaabani-giizis” means “hard crust on the snow moon,” which...
Meet the Editors: Incoming Managing Editor, Rachel Guvenc
For twenty-five years, Water~Stone Review has been a collaborative passion project of students, faculty, and staff. Creative Writing Programs staff member, Meghan Maloney-Vinz serves as the journal’s executive editor, while established writers in the field act as...
Shade of Blue Trees, By Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Reviewed by Zoey Gulden
Shade of Blue Trees Kelly Cressio-Moeller Two Sylvias Press 2021 ISBN 10: 1948767147 ISBN 13: 9781948767149 100 pagesIn Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s debut poetry collection, “Shade of Blue Trees,” this expert scene-setting writer takes the readers through a gallery of art....
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—T.N. Eyer
In your short story “Date of Death” from Volume 24, you write about a fictional world, very like our own, except that people are knowledgeable about their time of death. This is an interesting concept. How did you come up with this idea? Why did you decide to explore...
Meet the Editors: Outgoing Managing Editor, Robyn Earhart
For twenty-five years, Water~Stone Review has been a collaborative passion project of students, faculty, and staff. Creative Writing Programs staff member, Meghan Maloney-Vinz serves as the journal's executive editor, while established writers in the field act as...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Christina Olson
I noticed that both your poems “[...]” and “Gut” published in Volume 24 compliment each other as they both veer into the field of a strained relationship with a father. How do you use the medium of poetry to explore painful experiences such as strained familial...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Maria Zoccola
The following interview was conducted between contributor Maria Zoccola and assistant poetry editor Trisha Daigle discussing Maria’s poem “self-portrait as god” in Volume 24 and Maria’s work. The featured image, I SURRENDER, was created by Genesis TRAMAINE and...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kasey Payette
“We’re Not Weird About It” in Volume 24 is about a young person exploring their sexuality in the space of attending church events. What was the inspiration behind this story? How did it come to be? “We’re Not Weird About It” is a fictional narrative based on my own...