Congratulations to Bonnie Naradzay and Molly McNett, both third-place winners in the Catholic Media Association Book Awards!

“How can I tell you what I heard, my friend? / With words. Yes. But these were more than words.” Read an excerpt from Paul Mariani’s new collection Sing Me a Song, She Said, available now on Slant’s website: slantbooks.org/news/read-an...

“It was a hot Thursday evening in New York, and I did not have a book.” Caroline Langston experiences a happy ending to every reader’s worst-case scenario in today’s Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-elemen...

BOSTON-AREA PEEPS! On September 15, in Cambridge, MA, Slant will host “An Evening of Poetry with Scott Cairns.” I'll be there, too! The event will include a musical prelude, reading, book signing, and dessert reception—we hope to see you there! Registration link: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

“A superlative and varied collection from a master poet still in his prime”: Orlando Menes reviews Paul Mariani’s new book, Sing Me a Song, She Said, for today’s Close Reading. slantbooks.substack.com/p/paul-maria...

Paul Mariani’s New Poems

A collection from a master poet still in his prime.

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COVER REVEAL! Chris Forhan’s The Ghost Won’t Go, coming this December from Slant Books. Read more about the book: slantbooks.org/books/the-gh...

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Walt Whitman wrote that “the mere fact, consciousness”—the very awareness of being a thinking thing with sensations—so awed and pleased him that he could hardly move beyond that initial astonishment. ...

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“So yes, the poet does struggle day by day to get that elusive, previous something down on the page, and so share it with you, dear reader.” Read Paul Mariani on his poetic journey for Church Life Journal as we anticipate Tuesday’s live launch event. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/poe...

Call and Response: Poetry’s Secret Sources

Paul Mariani on prayer.

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"Each close reading is part of the ongoing story we tell about ourselves: it reveals who we are, what we believe, what we care about.” Read William Cain on Rupert Brooke’s “Mutability” and the art of close reading in community: slantbooks.substack.com/p/close-read...

Close Reading Rupert Brooke’s “Mutability”

What’s valuable doesn’t have to be permanent.

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“This may be Mariani’s best volume of poetry.” Congratulations to Paul Mariani on the publication of his tenth poetry collection, available today from Slant Books. Read the review from Micah Mattix for WORLD: wng.org/articles/a-l...

Paul Mariani’s life in poetry

New volume of poems examine brokenness and hope

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Congratulations to Paul Mariani on the publication of his tenth and perhaps final poetry collection today. Now available directly from Slant or wherever you order books. slantbooks.org/books/sing-m...

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AVAILABLE NOW! In this, his tenth and perhaps final book of poems, Paul Mariani—acclaimed poet, biographer, critic and teacher—reflects on his life, returning in memory to the 1940s and ending some ei...

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You've read all the hot takes. Now you come to Slant Books for what you need more of in your life: an actual close reading of an important text.... slantbooks.substack.com/p/humanity-w...

Humanity: What’s “Magnificent” about It—or Us?

Reading Pope Leo’s recent encyclical

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“I think my poetry saved me from abandoning my faith”: Scott Cairns joined Greg Garrett on the Good Trouble podcast to discuss his upcoming book, Against Certainty, and the role of poetry in our troubled times. Check it out: greggarrett.substack.com/p/against-ce...

Against Certainty

Scott Cairns on Faith, Prayer, Politics, and Writing

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TWO WEEKS AWAY: Join us at the live launch event for Paul Mariani’s Sing Me a Song, She Said on Tuesday, July 28! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/.../register...

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SLANT IN POETS & WRITERS! Slant was thrilled to be featured in the latest edition of Small Press Points, a corner of the famed magazine dedicated to up-and-coming literary presses. Check it out here or in your print copy: www.pw.org/content/smal...

Slant Books: Doing our literary dooty since 2013. Oh, and Gil Allen's hilarious short stories are coming this Fall. Be sure to pick them up after you read them.

The joy of a debut—if you couldn’t join us for the Light in the Canyon launch party, the recording is now available on YouTube! youtu.be/r39skZvaT7c?...

SLANTCAST Episode #46: Book Launch for "Light in the Canyon" by Darren Cools

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Watch what you wish for!

Since we have it on the highest authority that the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is 42, then I suppose our 42nd wedding anniversary ought to be the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Why Suzanne Married Me (other than temporary insanity)....

“I expect interiority in a portrait. But I’m not sure how much there is in this one.” Read William E. Cain on Paul Cézanne for today’s Close Reading: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

From “Against Certainty” by Scott Cairns: new from Slant in August. Pre-order your copy now.

Congratulations to Darren Cools -- it is publication day for his debut novel! And you know I consider an author's debut to be the eighth sacrament. Seriously, stop your scrolling and consider how big a deal this is! You know what to do! slantbooks.org/books/light-...

"If you can tinker with the 'no dog poop' sign, that would be worth trying." Actual sentence I just wrote to our Slant Books cover designer. This is why they pay me the big bucks....

"When I can see creation this way, I can stop seeing myself as a grasshopper in the eyes of others. Like them, I, too, am part of creation." Read Richard Chess for today's Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/am-i-a-gra...

Am I a Grasshopper?

A meditation on Hayim Nahman Bialik and Torah

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So glad that Graham Greene managed third place in the Association of Catholic Publishers’ book awards. He ought to be encouraged by this.

Suzanne: I asked for a sign from God. Me: Turn around.

“This love sets The Future of Love apart from much of the cheap surrealist verse of our time . . . Poch’s book is a welcome and refreshing work of depth and mystery.” Read Benjamin Myers on John Poch’s new collection for New Verse Review: newversereview.substack.com/p/a-review-o...

A Review of The Future of Love by John Poch

Review by Benjamin P. Myers

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If you missed our reading and discussion with Robert Cording on “What’s Possible,”  it is now available as an episode of SlantCast on Spotify! Check it out here: open.spotify.com/episode/0kgz...

#43: Book Launch for "What's Possible"

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"Love is necessary, the Book demands, / even when it is a splinter of glass / lodged in the heart." Now available: read an excerpt from Robert Cording's new book, What's Possible, on our website. slantbooks.org/news/read-an...

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W.H. Auden said about poetry: “there is only one thing / that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being / and for happening.” For forty years, Robert Cording’s poems have sought to prais...

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"Through Nathan, God declares that the distance David imagines between himself and the rich man has collapsed completely: the evildoer is himself." Read William Cain on the Hebrew Bible for Close Reading: slantbooks.substack.com/p/close-read...

Close Reading King David and the Prophet Nathan

“That man is you.”

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