by WaterStone Review | Jan 27, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Alexander Zitzner Tell us about your poem “Some Exorcisms That Lead Away from Forgetting” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I have two memories of this poem in its early stages. One being that I was able to...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 13, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–G.Bernhard Smith Tell us about your fiction piece “Bliss” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I have friends who own a boat. It is docked near the Raspberry Island Bandshell, a spot where many outdoor weddings...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 30, 2019 | blog: all
Tell us about your poem “My Black Boy Dead” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “My Black Boy Dead” 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 Detroit...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 16, 2019 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Cherene Sherrard Tell us about your CNF piece “Isle of Refuge” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? A few years ago, I was in Bermuda over spring break researching the life of Mary Prince, an abolitionist from...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 3, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece “Jim” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I had a short story collection that was evolving for years and finally it evolved into a cesspool of a novel. I knew it was, and so I ended up revising it, but that’s one of the pieces...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 18, 2019 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors-Steve Castro Tell us about your poem “Mother” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? I came across Warsan Shire’s epigraph from her poem “The House” that I used in my poem “Mother” via an AFREADA x Africa Writes...