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...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 4, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 20. How did they come to be? Both of my poems in this issue stem from contemplating the complexities of international adoption and examining my position of privilege within that system. While we were in the middle of a years-long...
by WSR Assistant | Nov 26, 2018 | blog: all
For twenty one years, Water~Stone Review has been a collaborative passion project of students, faculty, and staff. For our next issue, we are bringing a new team member to the process with hope of expanding our chorus of voices in our pages as well as our reach and...
