by WaterStone Review | May 11, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—mychael zulauf Your poem, “yazoo-mississippi delta” appears in Volume 28. When did you start writing this poem? What inspired it? I wrote the poem in a single day on a recent-ish trip I took with my partner to New...
by WaterStone Review | May 5, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jey Ley “Relume” is a beautiful poem that blends this idea of fireflies and relationships. Where did this idea stem from? Inspiration for the poem came from Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. I first learned about the...
by WaterStone Review | Apr 23, 2026 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Roa “Red Pine” is a beautifully creative poem in Volume 28 that details the melding of trees and octopus. Where did the inspiration for this poem come from? I wrote “Red Pine” during my time at the Bread Loaf...
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...
by WaterStone Review | May 7, 2024 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jenifer Browne Lawrence Your poem from Volume 26, “Reading Alone in a Square Room,” is a tightly-crafted, highly imagistic piece that leaves readers feeling refreshed. What was the inspiration behind this poem? This...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 19, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernie Reynolds In your flash fiction, “The Sergeant’s Daughter,” you’ve built a tightly-knit piece that revolves around a man’s relationship with his to-be wife over the course of 10 years, and her father....
