by WaterStone Review | Nov 28, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Teresa Carmody Your beautifully braided nonfiction piece, “Reading the Deck with Zora Neale Hurston,” speaks about the trauma of growing up in a house where you were not accepted. You deftly layer personal details and...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 14, 2023 | featuredpost
Congrats on your nonfiction piece “When We Were Boys,” which is featured in The Best American Essays 2023! We were excited to debut it in Water~Stone, and we are thrilled it is getting the recognition it deserves. Can you talk about where this piece started when you...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 7, 2023 | featuredpost
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rebecca Johnson “Day Comes and I Offer Light,” opens Volume 26 of Water~Stone. Your poem speaks to watching a parent grow older, and the emotional difficulties that accompany that, a longing to return to an earlier...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 26, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jean McDonough Your nonfiction piece, “Vanishing Point,” expertly braids painting and Cubism techniques, specifically Picasso’s Guernica, with a turbulent childhood, layered within the reality and metaphor of driving....
by WaterStone Review | Sep 6, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Garrigan In your poem, “The River, A Ghost,” I love that you give us several fourth-wall breaks that jar us out of the river imagery. When did the inspiration for equating a “river in drought” to struggles with...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 30, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Huang “Shoreline” is a beautiful poem that opens V25 and speaks to generational longing. What was the impetus behind this poem? I love how you put it—”generational longing”—because that feels so...
