Publisher & editor of Slant Books. Founder of IMAGE journal & the SPU MFA in Creative Writing. Author of Beauty Will Save the World, The Operation of Grace, etc. https://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mm3fw7wo3c26I called her my fairy godmother. She helped me get my start in publishing. Yesterday at the memorial service for poet Luci Shaw her life was celebrated. Suzanne and I were able to attend and were moved beyond words. Memory eternal.17 May 2026 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm3fw7wo3c26https://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mlwaxkvqxs23In case you missed it: Our reading and conversation with Robert Cording for this week's release, What's Possible, is available now on YouTube and Spotify! youtu.be/x3iJWA96Vck https://youtu.be/x3iJWA96Vck15 May 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwaxkvqxs23https://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mlmcywxvys2o"What’s Possible: New and Selected Poems makes clear what many have long known: that Robert Cording is among his generation’s finest poets, and that his work has been both deeply consistent and yet constantly evolving." Join us for tomorrow's launch at the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GJP-Tgt8TFOotVQxhRX_DQ#/registration11 May 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmcywxvys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mllpou2yds2o"'Ia Orana Maria' still retains a boundary, an edge, but outer reality has become part of the inside reality when the edge, the outside, is part of the inside." Read George Dardess on Paul Gauguin for today's Close Reading: https://slantbooks.substack.com/p/puzzling-with-paul-gauguin11 May 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllpou2yds2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mlc6cl62oc2t"The most impressive thing is that the play manages to take death seriously and, at the same time, be very funny." Read Brendon Sylvester's review of J.C. Scharl's new play on death and Rabelais for today's Close Reading: https://open.substack.com/pub/slantbooks/p/the-laughter-of-the-father?r=62qhrf&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer07 May 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlc6cl62oc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3ml7cmnk4qk25NEXT WEEK! Register now for the launch event for Robert Cording's new and selected poetry collection, What's Possible: [8:44 AM]Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GJP-Tgt8TFOotVQxhRX_DQ#/registration06 May 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7cmnk4qk25https://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3ml2dwpcfa22o"Is there a connection between what we did and why?" Read William Cain on William Shakespeare and Frederick Douglass for today's Close Reading: https://slantbooks.substack.com/p/more-of-making-decisions04 May 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2dwpcfa22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mkvkpbekps26TFW your front door becomes someone else's home...02 May 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvkpbekps26https://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mktbozldbs2s“There is evidence everywhere that things don’t decline, they just change.” Tune into today’s episode of SlantCast with@joeljmiller, author of The Idea Machine, for a discussion of the art of the book review, cultivating kindness, and old books vs. new. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ye2HPzGjw01 May 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktbozldbs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mknkfutogk2q"One doesn’t necessarily expect youthful, Spanish sensuality or the fragrant musk of Mediterranean climes from a middle-aged Midwesterner. John Poch & his eighth collection of poetry are full of precisely these sweet surprises." New review from Radix: https://www.radixmagazine.com/2026/04/22/the-future-of-love/29 Apr 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknkfutogk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mklmgum7ss2kTWO WEEKS AWAY: Join us for the launch event for Robert Cording's What's Possible: New and Selected Poems! Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GJP-Tgt8TFOotVQxhRX_DQ#/registration28 Apr 2026 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklmgum7ss2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mkl4icbnmk2kThis is the most important thing I've written in many a moon. I hope you will take the time to read it and let me know your thoughts. https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-church-of-whats-happenin-now-art-beauty-and-the-need-to-make-it-new/28 Apr 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl4icbnmk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mjzzpgoqxc2r"We wouldn't need art if the only way to tell the truth was literal propositions... We need, at times, to be converted, to be captured, to be shocked, to be taken unawares." Listen to @Gregory_Wolfe on the @FRATERNUS podcast Sword & Spade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgs2SIO54wA21 Apr 2026 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzzpgoqxc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mjx4425e322l"Stupid and good, stupid and beauty, these things are not mutually exclusive." Read Morgan Meis on a "famous but now not really all that famous, let’s say once-famous and now fairly obscure painting" for today's Close Reading: https://slantbooks.substack.com/p/the-isle-of-the-dead20 Apr 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjx4425e322lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mjpft7geu22qBest freakin' book dedication ever? One of the treats you'll encounter when you read a free excerpt from Tom Howard's "Invisibilia" (Slant). https://slantbooks.org/news/read-an-excerpt-from-invisibilia/17 Apr 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpft7geu22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mjmtyevrkk2yIf you are the Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing, please stop by the Slant Books booth and say hello to our managing editor, Emily Starr Kwilinski! Oh, and buy a book or three!16 Apr 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmtyevrkk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mizfjkprpk2aGrateful to the Wall Street Journal for affirming that I am the definitive biographer of Malcolm Muggeridge. 😀https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/malcolm-muggeridges-journey-to-christian-belief-bce89fbf?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink08 Apr 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mizfjkprpk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3miw64eprns2vA huge milestone for Morgan, Slant, & me -- our first review in The New York Review of Books. And what a review! "THE MOST EXCITING NEW WRITING ABOUT THE VISUAL ARTS TO APPEAR IN A GENERATION." https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/23/the-painters-shadow-world-morgan-meis/07 Apr 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw64eprns2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mitooxwokk2f"What may appear to be the constraints of form in each of these poems may in fact be the very features of the poems that enable the poets to, at last, sing to the Divine." https://open.substack.com/pub/slantbooks/p/the-breath-of-every-living-being?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web06 Apr 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitooxwokk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mijxlxhvhs2f"When we make the most consequential decisions—those that set off life-defining ripples—often we don’t know what we’ve done." Read William Cain on Ernest Hemingway and Henry James for today's Close Reading. https://slantbooks.substack.com/p/making-decisions-close-reading-ernest02 Apr 2026 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijxlxhvhs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mifb4dyo6s2vGiveaway begins today! One lucky reader will be selected at random before launch day (April 14, 2026) to receive a FREE SIGNED copy of Tom Howard's new short story collection, Invisibilia: a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape. Entry link: https://forms.gle/njcrZQWC3CAidzD2831 Mar 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mifb4dyo6s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mhy26dw6rs2sThe video of my talk is now available -- probably the most important speech I've given in a long time: "The Church of What's Happenin' Now: Art, Beauty, and the Need to 'Make It New.'" https://www.youtube.com/live/ekNLB3KvFv0?si=NVVJL3u5IJpJGkKl26 Mar 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhy26dw6rs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mhvzl24rgk2pThe Benedictines are not only hospitable but also generous, as you can see from this beautiful plaque they gave me after my keynote speech (with Pope St. John Paul II blessing the whole shebang)!25 Mar 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvzl24rgk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mhljro7usc2cThose Benedictines sure understand hospitality. Feeling very welcomed here at Benedictine College.21 Mar 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhljro7usc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mhgmeoumts2c7:30 PM TOMORROW, Friday, March 20! Don't miss Slant publisher Gregory Wolfe's keynote address at Benedictine College's Symposium on Transforming Culture—"The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now: Art, Beauty, and the Need to 'Make It New.'"19 Mar 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgmeoumts2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mhe2p244yk2lDon't forget to follow SlantCast on Spotify to listen to all of our live launch events as podcast episodes. If you missed the launch for The Future of Love earlier this month, it is now available here! https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dq1XEHgh1rsnb7hByBnbR?si=577d49146d8c418a18 Mar 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhe2p244yk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mguucuaduc2g"Scarlet, gold, blue-green, gin-blue, cobalt, parrot-green, beer-brown, orange: these are remarkably color-full lines." Read Peggy Rosenthal on John Poch's new collection from Slant Books for today's Close Reading: https://slantbooks.substack.com/p/loving-the-colors-of-spain12 Mar 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguucuaduc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mgstyl52ms2pSAVE THE DATE: Join us for the live launch event for Tom Howard's new short story collection, Invisibilia, on April 14. Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/kf6v8Z4PSBCLejc010sEyw11 Mar 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgstyl52ms2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gregorywolfe.bsky.social/post/3mgptc6nacc2jICYMI, our launch event with John Poch for The Future of Love is now live on YouTube! Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzZzma35yBI10 Mar 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:xfprebd6ugg4c5znuendit47/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgptc6nacc2j