by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kim Blaeser When was the moment you realized you needed to write “Wars and Small Wars,” your nonfiction piece in V. 28 of Water~Stone highlights the violence that women face on a daily basis? When did the war...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 19, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amanda Chiado “The Carrying Kind” is a beautifully descriptive poem. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? My brother lost his infant daughter, and it is an all-encompassing grief, an unbearable grief,...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 11, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Felicia Zamora You have two poems in Volume 28 of Water~Stone, “lEcogodliness” and “Always Incomplete.” In “Ecogodliness,” what drew you to use brackets instead of parentheses? In the full...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 5, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Christopher Citro Your poem, “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles,” is about a couple preparing to have guests over—but deeper than that, about connection and community in a shifting world. What inspired this poem?...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 22, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Alice Paige What inspired your poem, “An Untitled Hunt?” Where did you draw the title from? This poem is centered around the miracle of survival and the expectation of violence and death to be visited upon the creature...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 15, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cheryl Clark Vermeulen What inspired your poem, “Patriarch”? Thank you for your astute questions about my poem! It is lovely to have great listeners. My inspiration for “Patriarch” was very much...
