by WaterStone Review | Jun 6, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Stephanie Early Green Your fiction piece tells the story of Sabrina, who begins a new job after the trauma of her last one where she was forced into sex work. Where did the idea of “Nojento” come from? Why did you set...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 3, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sasha (Oleksandra) Lavrenchuk Your poems, “Algae” and “Babylon,” blend distinctly sharp images with emotion. How have you honed your writing and editing over the years into these poignant pieces? Thank you,...
by WaterStone Review | May 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Janée J. Baugher Your poem, “Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Goodbye My Love 2008,” blends loss and love in a unique format. What inspired this poem from the painting of Wyeth’s? What made you choose the format of...
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...
