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April 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #8

Who made it?

April 2021 | Issue #8

With “After You’ve Saved a Life” by Jonie McIntire

Quidam by Cirque Du Soleil.
abstract digital art with bright orange streak on a black and pink background
Untitled, digital, by Markos Pechlivanos.

With “A Brief History of Blue” by Dawn Denham

“Mississippi River Blues” by Big Bill Broonzy.
steps up to southern porch and front door with haint blue colors
Southern front porch with “haint” blues by author.

Acknowledgments

Retro car with heart by Sergey Peterman from Bigstock.

Background photo of blurred crowd by Brian Merrill from Pexels.

Background photo of rotary phone by 幻影 多媒体 from Pexels.

Background photo of lapis lazuli by Hannes Grobe (CC BY-SA 2.5) via Wikicommons.

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March 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #7

Who made it?

March 2021 | Issue #7

With “The Shut-In” by Erica Kent

“Who Can It Be Now?” by Colin Hay.
painting of woman with red hair and a frown, hands on her head and a man with his head tucked into his arm in shame
Ashes, oil on wood, by Edvard Munch.

With “Reduction” by Danielle Joffe

abstract of naked woman with lots of curves from the back
Untitled, digital on iPad, by the author.

With “My New York Accent” by Anne Myles

Street Scene (Hester Street), oil on canvas, 65.5 x 91.1 cm, by George Luks.
“New York City Ambience Sounds” by Nomadic Ambient.

Acknowledgments

“Edvard Munch: Beyond the Scream” by Arthur Lubow, Smithsonian Magazine 2006.

Background photo of house in disrepair by karamush from Bigstock.

“Mitosis vs. Meiosis” and image of a tiny embryo at CK-12.

Background photo of fabric tape measure by newsong from Pixabay.

“Visiting the Lower East Side in 1905” by Dr. Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Dr. Steven Zucker, Smarthistory.

Background photo of New York City skyline by Michael Pewny from Pixabay.

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February 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Editor’s Note Issue #6

February 2021

Editor’s Note

cheryl wilder smiling outside closeup

Our February authors have me thinking of water.

Water is supple and strong. Nourishing and precarious. Its constant movement erodes—snowmelt in spring, ocean waves breaking on shoreline, or the downpour we see in CG Miller’s writing—where beauty and friction meet.

A watershed helps to direct water, a ridge of land that separates the flow of groundwater into creeks, basins, or oceans. Bill Vernon speaks to the mysteries of water luring a young boy to dream and discover. A place where hopping, slithering, and swimming thrive. Where a night chorus of insects and amphibians remind us there is magic in the world.

I’m also thinking of the transformative power of a watershed moment, like the long-awaited return of a loved one in Stephanie Friedman’s piece—a crossroads where a woman is steadfast in what she wants.

This journal’s name derives from “The Waterwheel” by Rumi, a thirteenth-century Sufi poet. When I first read the poem back in 2015, the lines, “Stay here, quivering with each moment / like a drop of mercury” explained what I wanted readers to experience.

I read Rumi’s poem differently today, after eleven months of the unbelievable stress, exhaustion, and uncertainty endured by so many of us. There’s a greater responsibility to his words, “The waterwheel accepts water / and turns and gives it away, / weeping.”

I speak for all of us at Waterwheel Review when I say, “We accept. We give away. We weep.”

Cheryl Wilder

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February 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #6

Who made it?

February 2021 | Issue #6

With “A Little Watershed” by Bill Vernon

dragonfly on tip of brown spiky plant
Photo of wandering glider dragonfly, in Botswana’s Okavango Delta during its seasonal flood, by Justin Smith.

With “There’s Something a Little Wrong with Everything” by CG Miller

“I Can See Now” by Dead Can Dance.
“I Am Stretched on Your Grave” by Scullion.

With “The Night Janet Brought Her Rhymer Home” by Stephanie Friedman

“Clohinne Winds” by Niamh Parsons.
“Thomas the Rhymer” by Michael Kelly.
portrait of a young woman in the 15th century by Sandro Boticelli
Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1485, tempera on wood, 61 x 40.5 cm (Pitti Palace) by Sandro Boticelli.

Acknowledgments

Photo of blue heron with crawdad by Andrea Westmoreland via Wikicommons.

“Ovakango: Africa’s Miracle Delta” by Kennedy Warne, National Geographic Society 2009.

Background photo of graveyard by Creaturart from Bigstock.

Background photo of forest by jplenio from Pixabay.

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