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New things are coming!

After quite a bit of planning, testing, and replanning, we will be launching a new version of the website within the net couple months. We

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Rock & Sling Goes to AWP

by Lauren Klepinger As the end of spring break loomed nearer, I couldn’t help but wonder how I would survive the next week. I’d spent

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Our AWP events:

Stop and see us at table P24 in the bookfair. Freebie broadsides, poetry singles, buttons, back issues, and more. Plus t-shirts and issue 9.1, featuring

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Issue 8.1 cometh

We have most of the content settled for issue 8.1. The issue will be something of a theme issue, featuring work from some of the

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Ninety Years Post-Wasteland

by Jeremiah Webster If Madame Sosostris shuffled her “wicked pack of cards” today, would there be the hanged man, the “lady of situations,” the great

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7.2 is en route

With delivery scheduled for Monday, here’s another look into the coming issue. Artist’s statement by Emelie Ånskog How I breathe I was in London and

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To our new friends

If you signed up for our mailing list, or just picked up complimentary copies of our most recent issues at the Festival of Faith and

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A Rock & Sling Fundraiser

We’ll be hosting a poetry salon with Laurie Lamon and Nance Van Winckel at the Community Building in downtown Spokane at the end of April.

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Seven Ways of Looking at AWP

Cherise Hensley III. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, or AWP, is a game-changer for any student even remotely interested in publishing. I

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Pretty Vacant

Jeremiah Webster “We’re so pretty, oh so pretty, vacant.” – The Sex Pistols We had driven past midnight and needed sleep. The last four exits

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Now at the printer: Issue 7.1

featuring work from: Tara Ballard Michele Burkey Jackson Culpepper Kristin George Michael Gray Matthew E. Henry Adam Hughes Jeremy B. Jones Laurie Klein Alyse Knorr

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Advent Four

Kathryn Smith Ours is a God who lives in every sort of dwelling, with every sort of person, whether we live in a house or

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Advent Three

Kathryn Smith There are plenty of places in our West Central neighborhood for Isaiah’s prophecy to take hold. Who are the captives? What devastations –

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Advent Two

Kathryn Smith What does it mean, in the year 2011, in an urban setting, to prepare the way of the Lord? What if a neighbor’s

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Advent One

Kathryn Smith What struck me about today’s gospel—in addition to the ominous imagery—is that notion that the Lord’s coming will surely happen at night. So

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Pushcart Prize nominations

Rock & Sling is pleased to announce its nominations for the 2011 Pushcart Prize “To the Reverend Arnold Kenseth” by Ray Amorosi (issue 6.1) “Day

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In Praise of Blackberries

by Jeremiah Webster My two year old son has a Radio Flyer scooter: classic red with streamers that blow in the breeze with near-patriotic flair.

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Let It Be In Blood

by Jacquelyn Wheeler In a sermon series about spiritual revival, John Mark Comer preached a sermon called, “Born After Midnight,” in which he asserted that

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Issue 6.2 takes shape

It seems we’ve been sluggardly here on the R&S blog, but I assure you such is not the case. The new issue is coming together,

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Contributor Notes

We ask our contributing authors to consider the role of faith in their work, or in the pieces in our issue. It adds some depth

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Winter 2011 Issue

The new issue is at the printer, and should be in our hands soon, and then in our subscribers hands, and on news stands around

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Some Questions for God

by Mary McGinnis Are you the transparent look of First Woman waking? Are you First Man’s  thick and awkward tongue? Are you water of mistakes?

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Timothy and Mary

By Kyle Broeckel Timothy and Mary live beneath the overpass five minutes from my house. A little-used bike path runs alongside Escondido’s drainage canal, then

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Vigil, with Tarantino

by Claire LePage I watched Kill Bill while waiting for my grandpa to die last week. I wanted to watch A River Runs Through It,

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Honky-Tonk Bride

by Sarah Wells Jesus is dancing like no one is watching his partner. He smiles and twirls a girl in a satiny top and high

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Fish

by Jeremy Huggins When I was a child, I went fishing with two friends and their fathers. My father came along. I said that I

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Chasing Mary: The Grotto

by Nicole Sheets This essay is part of a work in progress about my relationship with the Blessed Virgin Mary and her iconography, superpowers, and

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The First Night

by Linda Annas Ferguson He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. Genesis 2:21 As we lie side by

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Back in Business

Rock & Sling is back, and getting ready for our first issue, due out in December. We are accepting submissions, and selling subscriptions, both of

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