by WaterStone Review | Jul 23, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Judy Kaber Your poem that appears in Volume 27, “Cracking the Lid,” is after Lois Dodd’s painting “Lifting the Lid.” What drew you to that painting, and what sparked this piece from it? Do you often find inspiration...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 15, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marc Nieson Your story “American Standards” involves a man balancing his daily corporate job, his aging mother, and his newish relationship. What sparked the creation of this story? Aptly, this story’s ‘spark’...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 2, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—G C Waldrep Your poems, “Night 410” and “Night 550” are from a work titled Plague Nights. What does Plague Nights entail? As with every other writer and artist I know, the lockdowns of...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 24, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Carla Panciera Your poem “Smart Girls Always Have a Plan” blends math and myth in one of my favorite lines, “Math, after all, is one letter removed / from stories of the gods.” Where did this poem come from? What...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 19, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jana-Lee Germaine “February at the Johnsons’” is about a woman going through a divorce. Where did this poem come from? I was right out of college when I married for the first time. It was a disaster, an abusive...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 11, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cristina Herrera Mezgravis Where did your inspiration for your fiction piece, “Ninina,” come from? I drew inspiration for “Ninina” from my own relationship with different women in my life—my mother, tías, and abuelas....
