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
August 5, 2019
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R&S Poetry
activism
Vox II: Contributor Notes
by Margaret Rozga As a person who has long been active in social and racial justice movements, my goal as a poet is to create
May 3, 2019
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Applauding Forever
These shifts of the perceived subject happen frequently throughout the poem, and cause me as a reader to reread previous lines differently due to the knowledge gained from later lines.
May 29, 2018
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Art and Faith
12.2 Contributor Notes
With a poem, faith is a hidden constellation, beginning with the still-mysterious act of writing. The blank page, which is simultaneously white and dark, is the abyss each writer stares into until the moment, as Nietzsche said, where the abyss stares back into the writer.
May 4, 2018
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Alice James Books
Summer Reading: Poetry as Antidote to Apathy
I am tired of violence. I am tired of lies and hateful rhetoric. I am tired, but it’s not time to go to sleep. It is time to wake up. These three poetry collections are the antithesis of lazy summer reading. These books shun complacency. These are books to stay awake by.
September 28, 2017
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art
Contributor Notes: 11.2
hese poems are my way of honoring the mysteries of the natural world—weather, geology, our human impermanence—using metaphor and image, rhythm and form to understand our roles in such an intricate system.
February 10, 2017
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April 12, 2016
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Contributor Note, Katie Manning
From issue 10.2, on shelves next week, is Katie Manning. For the past three years, my primary writing project has been a collection of poems
December 10, 2015
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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
December 1, 2011
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