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 hope to re-engage our readers, contributors, and editors in robust artistic conversations about the work, our lives, and the situations we find ourselves in. We're still here. We're still working. … Continue reading New things are coming!
Category: Announcements
Announcing a Guest Poetry Editor
I've been blessed to work with a stable lineup of genre editors since I took over as editor-in-chief of Rock & Sling in 2010. We've changed our font more times than we've changed editors. Both Laurie Lamon (poetry) and Julie Riddle (nonfiction) have been on board as long as I have. For the next two … Continue reading Announcing a Guest Poetry Editor
Connect with Rock & Sling on Social Media
Did you know Rock & Sling is on Twitter? And has an Instagram? Follow us on our social media pages to stay connected. Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RockandSling/ Twitter: @rockandsling Instagram: @rock.and.sling
Vox II: Intersectionality
by Meghan Foulk Now, more than ever, do we need to hear from the greater community within America. Polarization and pointed fingers widen division and crumble our foundations; we see each other as enemies rather than members of the same community. Being a Women and Gender Studies minor, intersectionality of identities is crucial to understanding who … Continue reading Vox II: Intersectionality
Vox II: Engage
by Caitlin Wheeler A few years ago, a few colleagues and I hosted lunch for a well-to-do visiting author. The author invited a local friend to join and they gabbed about nearby orchards and her friend’s meadery. When a colleague tried to join the conversation by sharing an experience she’d had working in a bicycle … Continue reading Vox II: Engage
Vox II: American Identities
by Emily Hanson American Identities is the exploration of the fluidity and the multiplicity of the different identities that have created the world we live in. As assistant poetry editor for this issue, I will be screening poems that share unique identities, exploring the idea of what being an American means. In this special issue … Continue reading Vox II: American Identities
Meet Rock & Sling’s New Web Editor
Like books, blog posts plunge me into a perspective different than my own, but in a way that is immediate, a compact chunk of text to absorb while taking the bus to work, multitasking during a Netflix binge, or sitting on a park bench during my lunch break. The great posts divert me from my comfort zone, helping me see myself, my community, my life, in new ways, sending me back into my day with a subtle shift in perspective, a gentle (or not so gentle) nudge to keep chewing on this new idea.
Reaching Out to Beauty
What can I offer them? What can I write to them when their fears and questions—along with mine—are so loud in our ears?
Special Issue Release at AWP
We are not interested in who is right or wrong, politically, but in capturing the voices in the discussion. We attempted to present as wide an array of voices as we could.
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