by WaterStone Review | Apr 23, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sadie Dupuis What is the story behind your poem, “Most of Last Year and the Years Before It,” that appears in Volume 27? I wrote this poem in March 2024, in response to Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker’s ongoing...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 16, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez Welcome back to Water~Stone! You had a piece last year, “Learning to Live With a Clockwork Orange,” in Volume 26. This year, your poem, “Half-Life of Krill,” puts oceanic and celestial imagery on...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 15, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Sam Stokley What was the spark behind your poem, “Ark/ee/awl/uh/gee,” that appears in Volume 27? The spark was an ancient, buried loneliness that hit me while I was at home on an average day. Other disabled people...
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...
