Four Way Books

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Four Way Books
Founded1993
FounderJane Brox, Helen Fremont, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Martha Rhodes
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New York City
Distribution University of Chicago Press
Publication types Books
Fiction genres poetry and short fiction
Official website fourwaybooks.com

Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors. [1] The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes, [2] who is the author of five poetry collections. [3] [ circular reference ] Four Way Books titles are distributed by University of Chicago Press. [4] The press has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, [5] and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program. [6]

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Authors

Representative authors published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Kevin Prufer, Terri Ford, Forrest Hamer, Pimone Triplett, Yona Harvey, Jeffrey Harrison, Sarah Gorham, D. Nurkse, Gregory Pardlo, Laurel Blossom, C. Dale Young, Noelle Kocot, Joel Brouwer, Cynthia Cruz, Pablo Medina, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Maya Pindyck, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Schneiderman, Sarah Manguso and Eugenia Leigh

Authors have been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, [7] the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, [8] the Rome Prize, [9] The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, [10] Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA fellowships, and many other honors; and Tommye Blount's Fantasia for the Man in Blue was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award [11] Four Way Books authors have been interviewed on the PBS NewsHour, [12] regional [13] [14] and national radio, [15] [16] and print media, [17] [18] including The New York Times. [19]

Recognition

Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in The New Yorker, [20] Publishers Weekly, [21] Library Journal, [22] Kirkus Reviews, [23] Booklist, [24] and many other publications. The press has been profiled in The New York Times Arts Beat, [25] and in Poets & Writers . [26] In a twenty-fifth anniversary feature of the press, the Los Angeles Review of Books praised Four Way Books for "publishing some of the most interesting, aesthetically diverse collections of poetry and fiction in the country." [27]

The press sponsors the annual Levis Prize in Poetry for a full-length poetry collection; and through their Four Way Books + Friends Program, has sponsored since 1993, joint readings by its authors with those of other presses, and authors yet to be published. [28] [29] The press also sponsors "Pay a Book Forward, which offers free books to college students who attend readings," and "the electronic journal Four Way Review, which publishes poetry and fiction from emerging and established authors." [30]

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References

  1. ↑ New York State Literary Tree Website > Small Press Detail > Four Way Books, Inc.
  2. ↑ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18
  3. ↑ Martha Rhodes Wikipedia Article
  4. ↑ University of Chicago Press | Distribution | Publishers
  5. ↑ NEA: 2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence: Literature Archived 2009-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Four Way Books Homepage
  7. ↑ The New York Times | Books | Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame | by Alexandra Alter | April 22, 2015
  8. ↑ Claremont Graduate University | News | April 7, 2021 John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Named 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner
  9. ↑ "Pratt Institute: News > Pratt Institute Professor Receives Prestigious 2007 - 2008 Prize in Literature" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
  10. ↑ "University of Hartford > The Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies > The Edward Lewis Wallant Award". Archived from the original on 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  11. ↑ National Book Foundation | Books | Fantasia for the Man in Blue
  12. ↑ PBS NewsHour | Stuck behind bars, a writer found a way to connect to the world | Interview with Reginald Dwayne Betts | by Jeffrey Brown | Jan 12, 2016
  13. ↑ 90.5 WESA 90.5 WESA | Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station | Morning Edition | Yona Harvey Interview | By Bill O’Driscoll | Across Time And Space, Poet Channels Other Voices | Published February 22, 2021
  14. ↑ Poets Café | April Ossmann Interview | by Lois P. Jones | KPFK 90.7fm Radio
  15. ↑ NPR | Fresh Air | Author Interviews | In 'Bastards of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost' | December 8, 2015
  16. ↑ NPR | Arts & Life | Weekend Edition | Interview by Scott Simon | For Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo, Poetry Offers 'Intimacy' Between Strangers | May 14, 2016
  17. ↑ The Paris Review | The Expression of Not Knowing: An Interview with Kevin Prufer | by Robyn Creswell | March 7, 2014
  18. ↑ Columbia Journal | Interviews, Poetry | From City to City: An Interview with Cynthia Cruz |by Brian Wiora | January 22, 2019
  19. ↑ The New York Times | Books | Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame | by Alexandra Alter | April 22, 2015
  20. ↑ The New Yorker Website > Books Briefly Noted > National Anthem by Kevin Prufer > April 28, 2008
  21. ↑ Publishers Weekly | Book Review | Bad Daughter by Sarah Gorham | 10/24/2011
  22. ↑ Library Journal | Book Review | by Barbara Hoffert | March 1, 2018 | The Affliction: A Novel in Stories by C. Dale Young
  23. ↑ Kirkus Reviews | Book Reviews | In the Mouth by Eileen Pollack | March 1, 2008
  24. ↑ Booklist | Reviews | Kontemporary American Poetry by John Murillo | March 1, 2020
  25. ↑ The New York Times Arts Beat | Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books | By Dana Jennings | July 17, 2014
  26. ↑ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18
  27. ↑ Los Angeles Review of Books | Essay | Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, 20 Years On December | By Jeremy Glazier | 20, 2012
  28. ↑ Four Way Books Website What We Do Four Way Books + Friends Program
  29. ↑ 2016 AWP Conference Schedule Four Way Books & Friends Offsite (Short) Readings
  30. ↑ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18

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