by WaterStone Review | Sep 12, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Mona Susan Power Your fictional short story in Volume 24, “Iktomi Spins a Web” is a fresh take on Iktómi, a trickster spider from Dakota and Lakota traditions. What was your intention behind creating a new story with a...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 30, 2022 | blog: all
Constellation Route Matthew Olzmann Alice James Books 2022 ISBN: 9781948579223 114 pages There is a picture of the moon that I like to keep on my phone. It’s not a great picture in terms of its quality, nor is the subject matter (the moon) anything unique. The photo...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 16, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Prageeta Sharma The featured image is by Barnett Newman, Untitled (1945) In your poem “The Restoration” in Volume 24, the speaker questions why they continue to “lurch into the structures of emotional hand-me-downs,”...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 3, 2022 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—W. Todd Kaneko There’s a sweetness of presence in your poem “Horsepower” as well as a complexity in a singular moment which I found intriguing. You take us on a journey through the simple observation of a cluster of...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 19, 2022 | blog: all
Splendid Anatomies Allison Wyss Veliz Books 2022 ISBN 13: 9781949776119 191 pages Allison Wyss’s debut book, Splendid Anatomies, collects sixteen short stories that explore themes of physical and emotional boundaries, identity, dissolution, and dismemberment. But...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 28, 2022 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Kimberly Blaeser This interview has been shortened. For the full interview, including information about Kimberly Blaeser’s activist work, please click this link: full interview. The title of your poem in Volume 24...