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 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program.[6]
| Founded | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jane 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 |
Authors
editRepresentative authors published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Kevin Prufer, Forrest Hamer, Yona Harvey, Monica Youn, Alex Dimitrov, Jeffrey Harrison, Sarah Gorham, D. Nurkse, Gregory Pardlo, C. Dale Young, Noelle Kocot, Joel Brouwer, Michael Dumanis, Cynthia Cruz, Pablo Medina, John Gallaher, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Maya Pindyck, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Schneiderman, Monica Ferrell, 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
editFour 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]
References
edit- ^ New York State Literary Tree Website > Small Press Detail > Four Way Books, Inc.
- ^ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18
- ^ Martha Rhodes Wikipedia Article
- ^ University of Chicago Press | Distribution | Publishers
- ^ NEA: 2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence: Literature Archived 2009-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Four Way Books Homepage
- ^ The New York Times | Books | Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame | by Alexandra Alter | April 22, 2015
- ^ Claremont Graduate University | News | April 7, 2021 John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Named 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ National Book Foundation | Books | Fantasia for the Man in Blue
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Poets Café | April Ossmann Interview | by Lois P. Jones | KPFK 90.7fm Radio
- ^ NPR | Fresh Air | Author Interviews | In 'Bastards of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost' | December 8, 2015
- ^ NPR | Arts & Life | Weekend Edition | Interview by Scott Simon | For Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo, Poetry Offers 'Intimacy' Between Strangers | May 14, 2016
- ^ The Paris Review | The Expression of Not Knowing: An Interview with Kevin Prufer | by Robyn Creswell | March 7, 2014
- ^ Columbia Journal | Interviews, Poetry | From City to City: An Interview with Cynthia Cruz |by Brian Wiora | January 22, 2019
- ^ The New York Times | Books | Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame | by Alexandra Alter | April 22, 2015
- ^ The New Yorker Website > Books Briefly Noted > National Anthem by Kevin Prufer > April 28, 2008
- ^ Publishers Weekly | Book Review | Bad Daughter by Sarah Gorham | 10/24/2011
- ^ Library Journal | Book Review | by Barbara Hoffert | March 1, 2018 | The Affliction: A Novel in Stories by C. Dale Young
- ^ Kirkus Reviews | Book Reviews | In the Mouth by Eileen Pollack | March 1, 2008
- ^ Booklist | Reviews | Kontemporary American Poetry by John Murillo | March 1, 2020
- ^ The New York Times Arts Beat | Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books | By Dana Jennings | July 17, 2014
- ^ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18
- ^ Los Angeles Review of Books | Essay | Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, 20 Years On December | By Jeremy Glazier | 20, 2012
- ^ Four Way Books Website What We Do Four Way Books + Friends Program
- ^ 2016 AWP Conference Schedule Four Way Books & Friends Offsite (Short) Readings
- ^ Poets & Writers | Articles | Four Way Books at Twenty-Five | by Nadia Q. Ahmad | 5.29.18
Sources
edit- Four Way Books Website, Various Pages Archived 2009-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
External links
edit- Four Way Books Website Archived 2009-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- University Press of New England > Four Way Books Titles
- Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Directory of Member Publishers
- Downtown Express > Downtown Poets Society:Bards Band together, by Ronda Kaysen > Volume 18, No. 3 > 06/16/05 Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine