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Sending out more love to our contributors. A Pomegranate, or A Rhyming Couplet, by Kristin Brace from Volume 19. #aprilpoetrymonth
April 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sending out more love to our contributors. A Pomegranate, or A Rhyming Couplet, by Kristin Brace from Volume 19. #aprilpoetrymonth
"A cobweb implies the absence of a spider—a small, relatively harmless animal that inspires disproportionate fear in people."
Read our interview with Sadie Dupuis online!
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Read our interview with Sadie Dupuis online!
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sadie Dupuis | Water~Stone Review
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April 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"A cobweb implies the absence of a spider—a small, relatively harmless animal that inspires disproportionate fear in people."
Read our interview with Sadie Dupuis online!
waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...
Read our interview with Sadie Dupuis online!
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"Still, fragile things can also be surprisingly strong..."
Read our latest interview with poet JC Talamantez about her piece "Half-Life of Krill."
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Read our latest interview with poet JC Talamantez about her piece "Half-Life of Krill."
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—JC Talamantez | Water~Stone Review
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April 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Still, fragile things can also be surprisingly strong..."
Read our latest interview with poet JC Talamantez about her piece "Half-Life of Krill."
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Read our latest interview with poet JC Talamantez about her piece "Half-Life of Krill."
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We are thrilled to announce that the proposal to sunset the MFA program was rejected by the Hamline university faculty. Sadly, we were informed that Meghan Maloney-Vinz's position as Program Coordinator and Water~Stone has been cut. We are still fighting to have these decisions reversed.
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April 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are thrilled to announce that the proposal to sunset the MFA program was rejected by the Hamline university faculty. Sadly, we were informed that Meghan Maloney-Vinz's position as Program Coordinator and Water~Stone has been cut. We are still fighting to have these decisions reversed.
"For me, contrapuntals are often about a split consciousness, but also about recognizing a sympathy or coherence between contraries or dualities."
Read our interview with Amy Pence on our blog! Amy is the author of the poem "Red Oak, Black Oak," in Volume 27.
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Read our interview with Amy Pence on our blog! Amy is the author of the poem "Red Oak, Black Oak," in Volume 27.
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Amy Pence | Water~Stone Review
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April 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"For me, contrapuntals are often about a split consciousness, but also about recognizing a sympathy or coherence between contraries or dualities."
Read our interview with Amy Pence on our blog! Amy is the author of the poem "Red Oak, Black Oak," in Volume 27.
waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...
Read our interview with Amy Pence on our blog! Amy is the author of the poem "Red Oak, Black Oak," in Volume 27.
waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...
Sign the Petition
SAVE HAMLINE'S MFA PROGRAM and WATER~STONE REVIEW
www.change.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"I’m always interested in the interplay between order and chaos..."
Our latest interview with Rob Arnold about his two poems in Volume 27 is up! Check out the link below at waterstonereview.com/blog/.
Our latest interview with Rob Arnold about his two poems in Volume 27 is up! Check out the link below at waterstonereview.com/blog/.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"I’m always interested in the interplay between order and chaos..."
Our latest interview with Rob Arnold about his two poems in Volume 27 is up! Check out the link below at waterstonereview.com/blog/.
Our latest interview with Rob Arnold about his two poems in Volume 27 is up! Check out the link below at waterstonereview.com/blog/.
Check out our work through the years! Our previous issues (going back 26 years) are available online for $5.
All of our in stock issues are online here: waterstonereview.com/wsrshop/
All of our in stock issues are online here: waterstonereview.com/wsrshop/
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Check out our work through the years! Our previous issues (going back 26 years) are available online for $5.
All of our in stock issues are online here: waterstonereview.com/wsrshop/
All of our in stock issues are online here: waterstonereview.com/wsrshop/
We enjoyed seeing so many of our contributors and editors at #awp25.
We're ready to get back to our goal: If you haven't already, please read, sign, or pass along the petition below to save Water~Stone from being eliminated.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
We're ready to get back to our goal: If you haven't already, please read, sign, or pass along the petition below to save Water~Stone from being eliminated.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
Sign the Petition
SAVE HAMLINE'S MFA PROGRAM and WATER~STONE REVIEW
www.change.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We enjoyed seeing so many of our contributors and editors at #awp25.
We're ready to get back to our goal: If you haven't already, please read, sign, or pass along the petition below to save Water~Stone from being eliminated.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
We're ready to get back to our goal: If you haven't already, please read, sign, or pass along the petition below to save Water~Stone from being eliminated.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
We got to see contributor to Volume 27, Sasha again, with Poetry Editor Kayla Knoll!!
March 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We got to see contributor to Volume 27, Sasha again, with Poetry Editor Kayla Knoll!!
So excited to see Maya Beck, CNF contributor of "Weekly Specials" for Volume 21, and Chavonn Williams Shen, The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University alum and and Runestone Literary Journal visiting writer!
March 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So excited to see Maya Beck, CNF contributor of "Weekly Specials" for Volume 21, and Chavonn Williams Shen, The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University alum and and Runestone Literary Journal visiting writer!
We're so thrilled to see Sasha Lavrenchuk again!!! Her poems, "Algae" and "Babylon" appear in two languages in V27.
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We're so thrilled to see Sasha Lavrenchuk again!!! Her poems, "Algae" and "Babylon" appear in two languages in V27.
Jana-Lee Germaine!!! Jana-Lee's poem, February at the Johnsons’, appears in V27.
March 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Jana-Lee Germaine!!! Jana-Lee's poem, February at the Johnsons’, appears in V27.
Here's our incredible Fiction Contributing Editor, Juan Carlos Reyes!
March 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here's our incredible Fiction Contributing Editor, Juan Carlos Reyes!
We got to see Jonathan Wittmaier, another Volume 27 fiction contributor with the piece "Terrarium"!
March 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We got to see Jonathan Wittmaier, another Volume 27 fiction contributor with the piece "Terrarium"!
From Volume 27 with the fiction piece "Ninina," we were thrilled to see Cristina Herrera Mezgravis!
March 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
From Volume 27 with the fiction piece "Ninina," we were thrilled to see Cristina Herrera Mezgravis!
Halee Kirkwood looking AWP matchy matchy cute!! Halee is a former contributor to WSR!
March 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Halee Kirkwood looking AWP matchy matchy cute!! Halee is a former contributor to WSR!
Set up and ready for the day! Say hi at at table 530.
March 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Set up and ready for the day! Say hi at at table 530.
For those of you who haven't seen this petition to halt the sunsetting of the Hamline creative writing MFA and the elimination of Water~Stone, please read and consider signing, or share! We're already over 1600 signatures.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
Sign the Petition
SAVE HAMLINE'S MFA PROGRAM and WATER~STONE REVIEW
www.change.org
March 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For those of you who haven't seen this petition to halt the sunsetting of the Hamline creative writing MFA and the elimination of Water~Stone, please read and consider signing, or share! We're already over 1600 signatures.
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
www.change.org/p/save-hamli...
The latest on the proposed sunset of Hamline's MFA program and the elimination of Water~Stone—many thanks to the Star Tribune for their commitment to arts coverage in our state.
www.startribune.com/faculty-and-...
www.startribune.com/faculty-and-...
Faculty and students surprised at Hamline proposal to sunset Minnesota’s oldest creative writing program
A growing petition urges Hamline University leaders to reconsider cuts to the creative writing program and a literary journal.
www.startribune.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The latest on the proposed sunset of Hamline's MFA program and the elimination of Water~Stone—many thanks to the Star Tribune for their commitment to arts coverage in our state.
www.startribune.com/faculty-and-...
www.startribune.com/faculty-and-...
We'll see you at AWP! Come support us at Table 530.
March 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We'll see you at AWP! Come support us at Table 530.