by WaterStone Review | Jan 16, 2024 | blog: all
A Conversation with Joan Naviyuk Kane—WSR Contributing Poetry Editor Water~Stone Review is a collaborative project of students, faculty, and staff at Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. In addition to working with our faculty, and to fulfill a larger...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 2, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Todd Davis Your poem, “Deposition: What Was Lost,” brings grief to the page with gentle, yet visceral, imagery, blending every other phrase with life and death. There’s a very cyclical feeling to the poem with these...
by WaterStone Review | Nov 7, 2023 | blog: all
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Rebecca Johnson “Daybreak Comes and I Offer Light,” opens Volume 26 of Water~Stone. Your poem speaks to watching a parent grow older, and the emotional difficulties that accompany that, a longing to return to an...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 30, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Huang “Shoreline” is a beautiful poem that opens V25 and speaks to generational longing. What was the impetus behind this poem? I love how you put it—”generational longing”—because that feels so...
by WaterStone Review | Aug 15, 2023 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Hwang Yuwon Your poem, “Dark and Clear Sleep” (translated by Jake Levine) takes the reader through a restless night. When I was reading it, I felt like I was right next to the speaker at the open window. What was...