by WaterStone Review | Jun 28, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jackie Trytten Your creative nonfiction piece “Taking Each Other In” from Volume 23 is a flash essay that our editorial board members said “really earned its place” in this issue due to its lyricism and economy of...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 14, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Krischan Stotz Your creative nonfiction piece “The Jellyfish Tide” from Volume 23 is a philosophical lyric essay that explores simultaneities and fate. Our board members who read and voted on including it in Volume 23...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 1, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Bagan Your poem “Primate” in Volume 23 explores traits and knowledge, things we learn from each other, from our ancestors. Can you tell us about the inspiration behind this poem? Yes, exactly. “Primate” sits atop a...
by WaterStone Review | May 17, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—John Wall Barger Your poem “We Came to Dinner” in Volume 23 fuses modern and contemporary poetic styles. Can you talk through the inspiration behind this poem? This poem started, as many of mine do, very literally, in...
by WaterStone Review | May 5, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Halee Kirkwood “Haibun for Early Autumn, Haibun for Buses & Sobriety” from Volume 23 follows the speaker along their bus route—images and sounds, thoughts and memories, included. I also ride the bus and every time...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 26, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sam Stokley Your poem “Theories and Postulates” in Volume 23 is, as you wrote in your epigraph is, “an rdeb love poem”. You describe this painful scene in which you purposefully hot glue a skin wound shut in an art...
