by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “That Far North” and “Drought.” How did they come to be? Both “That Far North” and “Drought” are typical and not-typical for me. Many of my poems arise from particular and beloved landscapes, and these two definitely do: the...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 5, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “My Boss Tells Me She Prays for Me” and “When I Say There Is Desire.” How did they come to be? “My Boss Tells Me She Prayers for Me” is actually a true story. I worked in her office as an assistant and spent most of my time at...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 25, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece, “The Man from Lowville,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? “The Man from Lowville” is one of those stories you decide to abandon only to return to years later. In fact, so much time has passed since the initial drafts that it’s...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 22, 2019 | blog: all
Rosali Borka is a self-defined cripple witch poet and dear friend of mine who is currently debuting as an Instagram poet. She is an incubator of intensity and has a profound command over each turn of phrase. Her first pieces in this iteration of her artistry have...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 19, 2019 | blog: all
Tell us about your poem in Volume 21, “Sunrise Village.” How did it come to be? It came into being the way most of my poems do: over time, various images lodge themselves in my mind and coalesce into something like a seed. When I feel it sprouting, I try to coax it...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 14, 2019 | blog: all
One way to swirl up imaginative juices with your partner, in times of potential lackluster fluttering or in a dry spell on romantic river beds, is to share in the experience of mutual poetic expression. An easy introduction to this exercise is to experiment with the...
