by WaterStone Review | Mar 11, 2025 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—April Darcy Your fiction piece, “The Bright World,” is about a daughter losing her father to cancer, and how she’s trying to balance her own life, a complicated friendship, and caretaking. How did this story...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 5, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Anne Piper Your poem, “Already all the ghosts,” is a beautiful and haunting look at pre-grief. The speaker compares their past to the present, and looks ahead into the future. What made you write this poem at this...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 25, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Christopher Gaumer It’s always wonderful to have a graduate of our MFA program in Water~Stone! What sparked the creation of your poem, “On a Farm in Iowa?” Hi, Jenn! It’s wonderful to be close to Hamline again through...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 11, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Davi Gray Your poem, “Caravan of Wounds,” crafts a dramatic setting and builds a world where pain and injury are clearly visible. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? I have consumed a lot of...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 4, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Samantha M. Sorenson Your work, “How to Eat an Elephant” creatively blends the idea of consuming both information and food. Can you talk about what sparked you to write this piece? The journey of writing “How to Eat an...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 29, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Albert Abonado Your two poems, “Romance” and “Beatitude for an Inventory of Roadkill,” are beautiful works of reclamation and loss. Where did the creation of “Romance” start? I spend my summers helping out at my...