Prior to having kids I judged parents who snapped at their kids. Now I empathize, and beg for the grace to be compassionate and slow to anger. My two children have taken me to the brink of a boiling point I didn’t know was there.
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Category: Author Profiles
An Interview with R&S Contributor Susie Meserve
by Terra Ojeda Susie Meserve was born and raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts, but has lived on the West coast for most of her adult life. She is a poet, essayist, and memoirist whose essays have recently appeared in Salon, Elle, OffbeatMama.com, the journal of The Santa Fe Writers Project, and The New York Times … Continue reading An Interview with R&S Contributor Susie Meserve
An Interview with R&S Contributor Ashley Roach-Freiman
by Rebekah Bresee Ashley Roach-Freiman wrote “Red Bird Elegy” and "poem with a line by andrew freiman," which appear in Rock & Sling 9.2. She is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Memphis, where she is Poetry Editor of The Pinch. Her poems are also featured in Dunes Review and THRUSH Poetry Journal. … Continue reading An Interview with R&S Contributor Ashley Roach-Freiman
Contributor Notes: 8.2
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 to what is often just of list of accomplishments that lacks any real sense of who wrote a particular poem or essay or story. Here’s a selection of what our … Continue reading Contributor Notes: 8.2
An Interview with Jeff Dodd
John Taylor is an R&S editorial assistant and recent Whitworth grad. He interviewed contributor Jeff Dodd. John Taylor : You’ve said that much of your poetry is obsession poetry, namely your Horoscope poems and your Nakagawa poems. What do you mean by obsession poems? Jeff Dodd: I think I’m interested in the obsessive mind, which … Continue reading An Interview with Jeff Dodd
An Interview With Antler’s Dave Harrity
by Emily Grant Dave Harrity, featured in Rock & Sling (vol. 8.1) is the creator of Antler. According to their web site, “through onsite workshops, print media, and digital content, ANTLER exists to help people engage creativity as a devotional practice for spiritual formation." Harrity is the author of recently released Making Manifest, a compilation of … Continue reading An Interview With Antler’s Dave Harrity
Ongoing Poetry, God, and the Natural World
by Ann Huston The first poem I remember writing happened in the middle of church on a Sunday morning. I was in elementary school, and the poem was about sitting by a fire, feeling the warmth emanating from it. That I wrote it in church speaks to my comfort in that setting. Writing can be … Continue reading Ongoing Poetry, God, and the Natural World
Skip the Cotton Candy: Writing Is Sweeter
by Julie Riddle “You have to go to considerable trouble to live differently from the way the world wants you to live. That’s what I’ve discovered about writing. If you wait till you got time to write a novel or time to write a story…if you wait for the time, you’ll never do it. Cause … Continue reading Skip the Cotton Candy: Writing Is Sweeter
Contributor Notes, Issue 6.2
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 to what is often just of list of accomplishments that lacks any real sense of who wrote a particular poem or essay or story. This selection from the contributor notes … Continue reading Contributor Notes, Issue 6.2
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