by WaterStone Review | Feb 7, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Pamela R. Fletcher Bush Your memoir essay “The Complexion of Love” in Vol. 24 recounts a pivotal moment when the young narrator Renny is confronted with racism by the white kids she’s attracted to, and then feels...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 24, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Darryl Holmes Your poem in Vol. 24 “The Persistence of Memory” uses Salvador Dalí’s 1931 surrealistic painting (of the same name). Can you speak to the inspiration behind this poem? How did it come to be? I went...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 10, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jeannine Hall Gailey Your poem “On the Autumn Equinox, 2019” from Volume 24 explores some big ideas on resistance: resistance from rape culture and patriarchy, resistance from predators or the changing of seasons, the...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 20, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Arleta Little Back in November 2020, we asked contributing creative nonfiction editor Carolyn Holbrook what types of submissions she wanted to receive for our forthcoming issue. “I can’t imagine Vol. 24 not having a...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 6, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Aloi “People Here”, your story in Vol. 24, immediately transported me to my middle-school days crowded around a friend’s computer, the sweet sound of the dial-up connection whirring, hoping we could find some...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 29, 2021 | blog: all
Inside and Outside the Box by Stan Sanvel Rubin For the past two years, our poetry reviews editor Stan Sanvel Rubin has wondered what impact pandemic-related isolation and online reading events will have on the future of writing. Like many of us, Stan found comfort...
