by WaterStone Review | Mar 19, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors— Kathleen Kimball-Baker Your poem “The Musher’s Daughter” speaks of a running girl in a picture. What sparked the creation of this poem? Is there an actual picture it was based on? Yes! I saw the picture on...
by WaterStone Review | Mar 5, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michaela Chairez Your poem, “On the Eucalyptus Trail” starts off with the powerful sentences, “I tell my friend the city is a whitewashed tomb.” What was the inspiration for this piece? The inspiration behind this...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 27, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Johnny Cordova Where were you when you first had the idea for “Li Po took a driving test?” What inspired this poem? Where did the impetus to use the title as part of the piece come in? It was the last day of a...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 10, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Steve Castro You have two poems in Volume 28 of Water~Stone, “Postcard from the Central American Town I grew up in before I learned to speak English,” and “Most likely an imperative from a Confederate soldier’s...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Victoria Blanco I love the storytelling in your nonfiction piece “Corn-Yellow Light.” You did a lot of research for this piece. How did you sift through everything to create a narrative? What was the...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 3, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Militello Your two poems, “Wax Self Portrait/” and “Wax Portrait of a Marriage/” are beautiful short prose pieces. What inspired you to write them? These two pieces are centered...
