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...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 30, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem, “Dream Rematerialized in Bangladesh,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? I really did have a dream in which long threads that extended from my mother’s tongue were stitched through my fingertips. She spoke, my hands typed. I was her...
by WSR Editorial Board Member | Apr 25, 2019 | blog: all
Noah Ballard is an agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. Noah focuses on literary fiction, short story collections and narrative non-fiction, including memoir, journalism and pop culture. Writer Lucas McMillan called him up to discuss querying, self-promotion in the 21st...
