by WaterStone Review | Oct 15, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cheryl Clark Vermeulen What inspired your poem, “Patriarch”? Thank you for your astute questions about my poem! It is lovely to have great listeners. My inspiration for “Patriarch” was very much...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 6, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Josh Nicolaisen Your piece, “Sometimes I Walk Barefoot Through Freshly Tilled Soil,” wraps up Volume 27. Where did the inspiration for this piece come from? Yes, and thank you so much for such a...
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 | 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 | 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...
