by WaterStone Review | Sep 17, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Lisa Higgs Your two poems, “About Nothing” and “Pandemic Dreams” are beautifully-worked pieces. Where sparked the creation of these pieces? As one might imagine with “Pandemic Dreams,” I wrote this poem at some point...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 22, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jonathan Wittmaier “Terrarium” really reflects the chaos of the family cooped up during a summer COVID lockdown. What prompted you to write this story? Being cooped up myself during that initial COVID...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 2, 2025 | blog: all
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 | 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 | Nov 29, 2021 | blog: all
Inside and Outside the Box by Stan Sanvel Rubin For the past two years, our poetry reviews editor Stan Sanvel Rubin has wondered what impact pandemic-related isolation and online reading events will have on the future of writing. Like many of us, Stan found comfort...
