by WaterStone Review | Apr 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez When did you first get the idea to weave your poem about sexual assault and rape with the violent film, “A Clockwork Orange?” I suppose it’s partly because I’m fascinated with that film’s complex...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—A. E. Wynter Your two poems, “Retching,” which deals with generational trauma and generational choices that live within descendants, and “Now & Later,” which examines how people are taught to open themselves at a...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 27, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Danielle Lazarin Your flash fiction piece, “The Math,” is a beautifully-crafted work that compiles so much emotion in just two pages. What prompted the creation of this piece? What made you juxtapose the...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 20, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Katie Yee Your piece, “Pennies Only,” blends the steady life of a relationship with a fantastical gumball machine. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Truthfully, the finding of the gumball machine is...
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....
