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Slant is an independent, non-profit, literary press, founded & edited by Gregory Wolfe, publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, & beyond.

Seattle, WA
Joined February 2020
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Chris Forhan is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University. His fourth poetry collection, The Ghost Won't Go, is forthcoming from Slant in December.
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On this week’s Literary Conversations episode of SlantCast, distinguished screenwriters Scott Teems and Bradford Winters joined Gregory Wolfe to discuss the relationship between literature and the world of film and television. Watch and listen at links below!
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Can you close-read a work in translation? Read Peggy Rosenthal on Emily Wilson on translations of the Odyssey for today's Close Reading:
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COVER REVEAL! In Maura Stanton's forthcoming short story collection Sea of Love, Venice is a microcosm of the contemporary world: haunted, vivid, sometimes terrifying, often maddening, but rich with beauty and human emotion.
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Baron Wormser, “In the Year of Our Lord, 1940”. [from James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette, @SlantBooks)
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In the Pittsburgh Review of Books: read Michael Simms's interview with Bob Cording about his new poetry collection What's Possible. pghrev.com/we-live-in-a-worl…
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"On the one hand, the scene seems to have nothing mysterious or magical about it. But it also feels more mysterious for being so plain, so easily ascribed to mere chance." Read George Dardess on Robert Frost for today's Close Reading:
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Slant in America's Fall Poetry Roundup: We were proud to see not one, but TWO Slant titles in this list! First up: Paul Mariani's Sing Me a Song, She Said. Read the article: americamagazine.org/poetry/2…
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“I was lucky that I was able to discover it as I was working on it." Read Sam Ligon's conversation with The Inlander, the first serial publisher of his new Slant novel, Miller Cane: inlander.com/culture/spokane…
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"Culture shock is not the point of these poems. I sense more a certain kind of wonder, however morbid it might appear." Read Orlando Ricardo Menes's review of Susan Miller's new collection Carnaval for today's Close Reading: link below.
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