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...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 2, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Revisiting a Conversation With Gabrielle Civil From Gabrielle Civil: “My Black Boy Dead” (Vol. 22) emerged from a kind of haunting. Although the poem resonates with recent anti-black violence, it came from a state of emergency in my youth. I grew up in...
by WSR Editor | May 18, 2020 | blog: all
The Art of the Book Review, by Barrie Jean Borich 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...
by WaterStone Review | May 5, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jeremy Griffin Tell us about your fiction piece “Where Strays Might Find Comfort” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? My wife and son and I live in South Carolina. Behind our house is a small duck pond, and...