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...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 7, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? My poem, “Aftermath,” was written the night of the election in 2016. I was in the process of writing a poetry collection about women who have suffered infertility and I had read some very negative...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 3, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your essay in Volume 20. How did it come to be? My essay, “Verdure,” is about the color green in different places I’ve been. It has a very mundane origin story: It was my turn to send some work to my writing group, and I didn’t have anything new to...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 17, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? The heart of “The Wild Plum” came from an actual experience I had, probably at age five or so, of coming across a wild plum tree while out walking, and my dad picking plums for my sister and...
by WSR Editorial Board Member | Dec 13, 2018 | blog: all
(Photo: Boneshaker Books table display) Not to knock Toni Morrison, but she’s not the only person of color to have ever written a book. In a lot of local bookstores I’ve frequented I’ve had to go to the designated cultural section to find books by a person of color...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 10, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your fiction piece in Volume 20. How did it come to be? When I was teaching at Hamline in 1994, Jimmy––an inmate at Oak Park Heights Maximum security prison––took two classes from me, one in the MALS (Master of Arts of Liberal Studies) program and the...
