by WaterStone Review | Jun 3, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece, “For Ángel, The Ocean,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? Someone close to me struggled with substance abuse, and it’s very hard to know what to do in that situation. You want to help and be there for them, but where is the line...
by WSR Assistant | May 30, 2019 | blog: all
Dear friends, contributors, and readers, As I pass along the mantle of Assistant Managing Editor and graduate from Hamline’s MFA program, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for the incredible support and enthusiasm you have for Water~Stone Review. The...
by WaterStone Review | May 28, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem “Coulee Kids” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? This poem is a commentary on the community where I grew up in western Wisconsin. I started writing it after hearing about the passing of the woman I mention in the poem, who was the mother...
by WaterStone Review | May 21, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your essay, “Memory Palace,” from Volume 21. How did it come to be? I wrote “Memory Palace” to explore my experience of teaching poetry to older adults with memory loss, as well as the way memory has shifted in my own life through parenting a young...
by WaterStone Review | May 13, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece in Volume 21, “Double Jack Slip Jig.” How did it come to be? Moseman “Double Jack Slip Jig” is the opening chapter of a novella, Snippet, that I wrote to inhabit/explore the aftermath of a murder-suicide. Before Google, the only...
by WaterStone Review | May 6, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun” and “O Pie of Grace.” How did they come to be? “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun”: I was frustrated with sea-green, forest-green, mint-green. There are so many greens! Description is so hard! I...
