by WaterStone Review | Apr 9, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Pence Your poem, “Red Oak, Black Oak” blends nature and family into a real family tree. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Thank you for these questions, Jenn. I wrote the poem looking out a...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 18, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Rob Arnold Your pair of poems, “Chimera,” speak to growing up, terror, and a cycle of life and death. What was the impetus for these poems? How did they evolve from single poems into a pair? These two...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 11, 2025 | featuredpost
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 | featuredpost
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 11, 2025 | featuredpost
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 | featuredpost
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...
