by WaterStone Review | Mar 12, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—A. E. Wynter Your two poems, “Retching,” which deals with generational trauma and generational choices that live within descendants, and “Now & Later,” which examines how people are taught to open themselves at a...
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 | Sep 6, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Garrigan In your poem, “The River, A Ghost,” I love that you give us several fourth-wall breaks that jar us out of the river imagery. When did the inspiration for equating a “river in drought” to struggles with...
