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R&S Announcements

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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American identity

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

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American identity

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

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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

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Art and Faith

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.

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beauty and art

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?

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art

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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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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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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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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Sarah Vowell Live

Looking for something to do with the remainder of your weekend? Whelp, good luck. But when that long and glorious weekend reaches an end and

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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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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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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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