by WaterStone Review | Feb 11, 2019 | blog: all
In The Field is a blog series devoted to highlighting the writing life and artistic process of our contributors. This week we continue with our series now featuring contributors from our most recent issue, Vo. 21 “Bodies Worth Defending”. 1. Tell us...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 8, 2019 | blog: all
No, you’re not technically writing, but creating “magazine poetry” is a good exercise to get you out of your own head. Experiencing writer’s block? Spread out, use new tools and muscles, find words that aren’t your own and claim them. Here’s a quick guide to magazine...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 4, 2019 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? “You’re the deciduous forest” was written a few years ago while I was writing a lot of poems that were basically litanies of contradictory statements. In truth, I tend to write quite a few of these. This...
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,...
