by WaterStone Review | Mar 15, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Chris Arthur Your essay “Listening to the Music of a Vulture’s Egg” from Volume 23 takes the reader on a philosophical journey through time and space, and it begins with this griffon vulture’s egg that you bought as a...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 1, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JJ Peña Your flash cnf piece “air in the brain” in Volume 23 feels like this urgent, almost pseudo apology or justification from the speaker who feels compelled to explain their mother’s behavior. Can you tell us how...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 15, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Meg Eden Your poem “Estate Sale” in Volume 23 starts out really funny and lighthearted until about the time when the speaker finds sales tags on used underwear. Then it shifts into some very thought-provoking territory...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 1, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Allison Wyss Your short story “FastDog Security” in Volume 23 is, as Keith Lesmeister wrote in his editorial letter, “quirky and odd, in the best possible way.” Can you tell us how the idea came to you to write about a...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 20, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Alice Hatcher Your poem “Before the First Incision” in Volume 23 includes a speaker contemplating an impending surgical procedure while walking on the beach. Can you tell us a little bit about how this poem came...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 4, 2021 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Peter Vertacnik Your poem “The Book” in Volume 23 includes one repetitious line in each stanza that threads the narrative together. What does it say about this man that he refuses to accept separating from his...
