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 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 | Mar 5, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field—Conversations With Our Contributors: Anne Piper Your poem, “Already all the ghosts,” is a beautiful and haunting look at pre-grief. The speaker compares their past to the present, and looks ahead into the future. What made you write this poem at this...
