by WaterStone Review | Feb 5, 2026 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Christopher Citro Your poem, “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles,” is about a couple preparing to have guests over—but deeper than that, about connection and community in a shifting world. What inspired this poem?...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 10, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Steve Castro You have two poems in Volume 28 of Water~Stone, “Postcard from the Central American Town I grew up in before I learned to speak English,” and “Most likely an imperative from a Confederate soldier’s...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 29, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Victoria Blanco I love the storytelling in your nonfiction piece “Corn-Yellow Light.” You did a lot of research for this piece. How did you sift through everything to create a narrative? What was the...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 22, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Alice Paige What inspired your poem, “An Untitled Hunt?” Where did you draw the title from? This poem is centered around the miracle of survival and the expectation of violence and death to be visited upon the creature...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 15, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cheryl Clark Vermeulen What inspired your poem, “Patriarch”? Thank you for your astute questions about my poem! It is lovely to have great listeners. My inspiration for “Patriarch” was very much...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 6, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Josh Nicolaisen Your piece, “Sometimes I Walk Barefoot Through Freshly Tilled Soil,” wraps up Volume 27. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Yes, and thank you so much for such a...
