I haven't watched yet but Scott Cairns is 1 of my favourite living poets & I can't wait to read his latest collection (with Slant Books). His readings are always fantastic, so I'm looking forward to listening to his book launch! youtu.be/4qRbVhDAt9g?si…

From Slant Books on our #WomenInTranslation Month list: The poems in OLD SONGS by Olga Sedakova, translated from Russian by Martha M. F. Kelly, form “a lyric sequence infused with folk wisdom and anchored in moral courage.” slantbooks.org/books/old-song…

Dear friends, thanks to a lifetime of hard work & much, much more to the dazzling, inscrutable grace of God, Suzanne & I have found a new place to live & work, a place of surpassing beauty. We hope many of you will come & visit us here & raise a toast on this deck. Deo gratias.

Don’t miss new books launching at Split/Lip Press, University of Tampa Press, Slant Books, Relegation Books + Records, Wandering Aengus Press & Trail to Table Press, Restless Books, Hub City Press, and more indie presses this August! clmp.org/news/books-lau…

Engrossing feature piece about the story Eric Freeze recounts in his "French Dive" (Slant Books). Moving a family of six to France! deseret.com/family/2024/08…

Somehow the "slavish, adorable sycophancy of Johann Peter Eckermann" manages to offer us a portrait of Goethe in all his vanity and greatness, torn between Neoclassical and Romantic forces. So says Morgan Meis, today at Slant's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.org/close-reading/…

When you pass this sign, you know you are on the right road to our house.

Leonie Caldecott and I will be doing a webinar on 9/4 on Faith, Catholic Art, an Beauty for Britain's Catholic magazine, The Tablet . Join us! ($$) thetablet.co.uk/events/258/web…

In times like these, a simple exchange can evoke hope. Books can change the world. slantbooks.org/books/the-drun…

Excellent The Tablet webinar tonight with Gregory Wolfe #LeonieCaldecott and #PeterStanford....❤️👏 #Faith #CatholicArt #Beauty Lots to reflect and follow up on, whether it be books, paintings or other artistic forms like poetry....

Scott Cairns demonstrates that "close reading" is the basis not only for understanding literature but for generating new literary works. Peggy Rosenthal on "Correspondence with My Greeks," today at Slant Books's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.org/close-reading/…

Find out more here: slantbooks.org/books/we-shall… Slant Books

Forgive the vanity but in the new house I decided to gather everything Suzanne & I had ever written, edited, contributed to, or published or caused to be published. We're going to need a bigger bookcase.

Life imitating art imitating life? (I was admiring this photo then looked up and saw this above my laptop.)

Rick Chess on how Rosh Hashanah and poetry can enable us to experience “a high moment of turning.” Today at Slant Books's Close Reading blog. slantbooks.org/close-reading/…

Now available from Slant Books. slantbooks.org/books/correspo…

TFW you see a social media post of a bright stack of books the poster is excited to read and they are all predictable fodder from the Big Five with nary a small press title to be seen....

From the newsletter of writer Connie May Fowler. More here: slantbooks.org/books/we-shall…

The poems in Olga Sedakova’s OLD SONGS are “united by a rare combination of humility, candor, and confidence, and by a deep, bass note of joy.” —Scott Cairns Translated by Martha M. F. Kelly & published by Slant Books #NationalTranslationMonth slantbooks.org/books/old-song…

Impulse and Repetition: On Two Poems by Robert Frost slantbooks.org/close-reading/… via Slant Books