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How to Live with This
I was in physical pain, confined mostly to the couch and bed. I knew what hurt: my lower back, my left hip. I didn’t know what caused the pain. The acute pain was preceded by some noticeable discomfort that, over the previous few weeks, had...
Robert Cording’s Poetry of Grief
I’m reading Robert Cording’s latest poetry collection, What’s Possible: New & Selected Poems. In the “Selected Poems” sections, we get a survey of Cording’s long, celebrated poetic career, ranging from Life-List in 1987 through Without My A...
Of Memory and Silence: Q&A with Robert Cording
Slant has published two previous Q&A sessions with Robert Cording, which you can find here and here. For his third Slant title and eleventh poetry collection, What’s Possible, he agreed to answer a few questions as a retrospective on his wo...
Puzzling with Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin’s first major Tahitian canvas, “Ia Orana Maria” (“Hail Mary”) is a painting that should be seen at the Met, if you can get there.
My wife Peggy and I can’t. But we visited the painting anyway, not once but twice, in the form o...
“The Laughter of the Father”
In The Death of Rabelais, her recent verse play, J.C. Scharl has created something rare: an excellent comedy about death. It is, moreover, not only a comedy about death, but a comedy about comedy’s relationship with it. But the most impress...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Books grounded in a sense of "felt life" since 2013. Slant is an independent, not-for-profit literary press specializing in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, theology, and belles lettres.
Ph.D. in theology, the imagination, and the arts. Writing about narrative, Shakespeare, and culture. Managing editor @slantbooks.
Writer, painter, arts writer, gardener
Christian poet and writer who likes The Faerie Queene and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Teaching myself the banjo but am still bad at it.
Gregory Wolfe is the publisher & editor of Slant Books. He is the author of Beauty Will Save the World, Intruding Upon the Timeless, The Operation of Grace, & other books. Bylines: Washington Post, Wall St Journal, America, Commonweal, & First Things
writer living in Detroit
retired English teacher, Roman Catholic deacon, reader, writer, cartoonist
I am a poet, writer, and educator. I am an emeritus professor of English at UNC Asheville, where, among other things, I directed the Center for Jewish Studies for 30 years.
I'm a wife and mom outside DC. I also raise money for journalism and write nonfiction.
William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College.
I have a PhD in English Literature. My first published book was Words and Values, a close reading of popular language. Since then I've published widely on the spirituality of poetry in various journals and books.
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