by WaterStone Review | Apr 27, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—L. A. Johnson Your two poems, “Pine Needles Fall on a Green Snow” and “Asymmetry” appear in Volume 28. Both poems feature father figures and colorful imagery. What inspired these poems? My father died suddenly in 2019....
by WaterStone Review | Apr 20, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Anna Molenaar “Transportation Fantasy” in Volume 28 holds such an imaginative liveliness. Where and how did the idea for this nonfiction first spring to life? My first car was a thrice-owned glorious clunker of a...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 16, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Thoreen “Departures” is the final poem in V. 28 of Water~Stone and focuses on a memory of an uncle’s death. When did you begin to write this poem? I’d like to think I began writing this poem when I was thirteen...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 14, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Bryan Price Where did the first spark of inspiration for ”Unidentified flying object” come from? It’s hard to say now, but I think it has a lot to do with politics and history. I think it has to do with being...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 9, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ty Chapman You have two poems in Volume 28: ”They Tried to Bury the Neighborhood” and “My Middle Name is Christian,” both of which deal with colonialism and white-perpetuated violence, but in different ways. Where and...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 2, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Suqi Karen Sims Your fiction piece, “Fungirl,” takes the idea of mycelium network and puts it in a child-shaped body, telling the story of a chef who uses those mushrooms from this creature to create dishes. This work...
