by WaterStone Review | Oct 6, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Stephen Eric Berry Tell us about your poem “Monster” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? For several years I have been engaged in a series of reading-response rituals based on the sonnets of Shakespeare. The...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 28, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Majorie Saiser Tell us about your poem “The Citrus Thief” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? One of the joys of my life is to rock back and forth to summer on the Great Plains and winter in Arizona; the plants...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 21, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Mitchell Jacobs Tell us about your poem “Dialogue Between Colander and Self” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? In a Middle English class, I had been comparing manuscripts of a medieval “Debate between Body and...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 14, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Kevin Lanahan Tell us about your cnf piece “There Is a Light” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? Years ago, a friend I’d met at the Bread Loaf writers conference visited. He was showing me sections of a...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 9, 2020 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Jeanette Beebe Tell us about your poem “[TK]” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “[TK]” is a broken sonnet. It’s dedicated to the journalists who kept working during and after the mass shooting at The...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 17, 2020 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Tessa Livingstone Tell us about your poem “The Mystic Explains” in Volume 22. How did it come to be? “The Mystic Explains” was inspired by my favorite Tarot card, the Eight of Cups, which is said to represent...
