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...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 21, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michelle Bonczek Evory Tell us about your poem “Becoming American” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I was lucky to grow up less than a mile away from both sets of my grandparents. I saw them all the time;...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 6, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–April Gibson Tell us about your poem “Coldwater” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I wrote the first draft of this poem in 2014 during my time in the Loft Mentor Series. We were having a workshop with one of...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 23, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Marlin Barton Tell us about your fiction piece “Reading Aloud” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? Just as the character in the story does, I read to my mother when she was in a nursing home for the better part...
