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...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 19, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors— Kathleen Kimball-Baker Your poem “The Mushers’ Daughter” speaks of a running girl in a picture. What sparked the creation of this poem? Is there an actual picture it was based on? Yes! I saw the picture on...
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...
