by WaterStone Review | Feb 13, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Anthony Ceballos Q: One of the lines of your poem, “Glassful of Prayer,” is used as the title of Volume 26—“wreckage of once was.” Where did your own title come from? What was the impetus for you to take readers on...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ryan Habermeyer Your nonfiction piece, Only Matter, juxtaposes the death of a girl you knew with Lenin’s preservation. What was the impetus to blend these ideas together on the page? It was a weird writing experience....
by WaterStone Review | Jan 16, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Todd Davis Your poem, “Deposition: What Was Lost,” brings grief to the page with gentle, yet visceral, imagery, blending every other phrase with life and death. There’s a very cyclical feeling to the poem with these...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 12, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Danielle Decatur Your wonderful fiction piece, “Lies on the Lips,” shows your main character Nell’s quiet transformation into confidence (and a little past that) with the help of a pair of marker-drawn lips. Where did...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 28, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Teresa Carmody Your beautifully braided nonfiction piece, “Reading the Deck with Zora Neale Hurston,” speaks about the trauma of growing up in a house where you were not accepted. You deftly layer personal details and...
