by WaterStone Review | Jan 31, 2019 | blog: all
In my first semester at Hamline’s MFA Program, the poet Gretchen Marquette came to visit one of our classes. During a Q&A with our class, she was asked about her writing practice. The student asked whether she wrote everyday, and if she did, whether her...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 29, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I’m working on a collection that’s in part about turning fifty, and it contains a lot of poems that riff on that number in one way or another—a poem called “L” in fifty-character lines, for example. I...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 23, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I first wrote the poem “Ventriloquist” when I was living in the Rio Grande Valley. It’s by no means uncommon to hear English and Spanish (or a combination of both) spoken throughout the region. However,...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 17, 2019 | blog: all
Language and communication are essential to life and culture, but where is poetry’s place in a world where the emphasis is on speed and efficiency? If one can get past the notion that poetry is only for intellectuals and scholars, that it is boring and difficult to...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 14, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your short story in Volume 20. How did it come to be? A pretty huge percentage of the stories that I write begin as things that I just think are funny, just little jokes that I’m telling to myself. Initially, the only thing I knew about “How I...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 11, 2019 | blog: all
I wish I was a morning person. I really, really do. I wish I rose early enough to witness the morning sun kissing the horizon on its way up, to hear the birds early morning chatter. But I am not a morning person. Not even a little bit. I’ve tried everything from...
