by WaterStone Review | Feb 28, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Annie Trinh Your short story “Observation Notes on the Effects of the Vespa Mandarinia” from Volume 25 is about an entomologist battling an infestation of killer hornets in Seattle. What was the inspiration behind this...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 13, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Patrick Cabello Hansel The featured image was taken from a broadside created by Nick Wroblewski displaying Roy McBride’s poem “Lilac Week” for the Powderhorn Writer’s Festival. Your poem “Lilac Time Minneapolis, May...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 17, 2023 | blog: all
Smog Mother John Wall Barger Palimpsest Press 2022 ISBN: 9781990293214 91 pages Smog Mother, John Wall Barger’s sixth collection of poetry, begins with an epigraph from the 1959 French New Wave film Hiroshima Mon Amour, written by Marguerite Duras: SHE: The...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 3, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—J.G. Jesman In “Mr Chilombo’s Wife”, your short story published in Volume 25, the narrator describes the goings-on of her day as we begin to see that something is off in the relationship between her and her husband....
by WaterStone Review | Dec 13, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernestine Saankaláxt Hayes Congratulations on your Pushcart nomination for your fictional story “Drowning in shallow water is our only escape” in Volume 25! What was the process like for you while writing this unique...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 29, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ty Chapman Congratulations on being nominated for the Pushcart Award for your poem “Pantheon” in volume 25. This poem speaks not only to the multifaceted layers of oppression Black people face, but also to their...