by WaterStone Review | Aug 17, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Tessa Livingstone Tell us about your poem “The Mystic Explains” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “The Mystic Explains” was inspired by my favorite Tarot card, the Eight of Cups, which is said to represent...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 4, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Ed Bok Lee Tell us about your fiction piece “The Ferryman” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? This short story about a group of Asian American friends (from all different cultural and ethnic backgrounds) is one...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 20, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Morgan Grayce Willow Tell us about your CNF piece “(Un)document(ing)” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I had been trying to come to terms with my own complicity in the theft of land from Native peoples. Each...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 6, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Purvi Shah Tell us about your poem “Moving houses, Maya pumps a music that cannot offer” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? In some ways, I have an unusual New York City story – which is that I’ve lived in my...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 30, 2020 | blog: all
The Art of the Book Review, By Stan Sanvel Rubin Earlier this year, we began to mull over the idea of highlighting the creative process of our poetry and CNF book reviewers, Stan Sanvel Rubin and Barrie Jean Borich. We wanted to devote a space to allow these long time...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 22, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Juan Morales Tell us about your fiction piece “The Saddest Song” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? The piece is based on a real grad school experience when I taught one of my first classes in a theater...