Four Way Books
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Four Way Books is an American not-for-profit literary press located in New York City, New York, 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. The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes
, who is the author of three poetry collections. Four Way Books titles are distributed by University Press of New England
. The press has received grants from
New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts
, and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
through their re-grant program.
Notable poets published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman
, Kevin Prufer
, Terri Ford, Forrest Hamer
, Pimone Triplett, Jeffrey Harrison
, Sarah Gorham
, D. Nurkse, Laurel Blossom, C. Dale Young
, Noelle Kocot
, Joel Brouwer
, Pablo Medina, Cynthia Huntington
, Jason Schneiderman
, and Sarah Manguso
.
Authors have been recipients of the Rome Prize
, The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA fellowships, and many other honors. A recent title was also a finalist for the National Book Award
.
Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and many other publications.
Awards given by Four Way Books include the Levis Poetry Prize and the Four Way Books Intro Prize. The press also sponsors a reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club
, called Readings on the Bowery, featuring FWB authors and writers from across the country.
Martha Rhodes
Martha Rhodes is an American poet, teacher, and publisher. She is author of four poetry collections, most recently The Beds and Mother Quiet...
, who is the author of three poetry collections. Four Way Books titles are distributed by University Press of New England
University Press of New England
The University Press of New England , located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, is a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College , the University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern University...
. The press has received grants from
New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses is an American organization of independent literary publishers and magazines. It was founded in 1967 by Robie Macauley, Reed Whittemore ; Jules Chametzky ; George Plimpton ; and William Phillips as the...
through their re-grant program.
Notable poets published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman
Catherine Bowman
Catherine Bowman is an American poet.Her most recent poetry collection is The Plath Cabinet , and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse,...
, Kevin Prufer
Kevin Prufer
Kevin D. Prufer is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist. His most recent books are In A Beautiful Country and National Anthem...
, Terri Ford, Forrest Hamer
Forrest Hamer
Forrest Hamer is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Rift . His first collection, Call & Response, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, Middle Ear , received the Northern California Book Award...
, Pimone Triplett, Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey W. Harrison is an American poet. His most recent poetry collection is The Names of Things: New & Selected Poems . His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, Poets of the New Century...
, Sarah Gorham
Sarah Gorham
Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher.She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College....
, D. Nurkse, Laurel Blossom, C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young
C. Dale Young is an American poet and writer, physician, editor and educator.-Life:Young writes and publishes poetry and short stories, practices medicine full-time, edits poetry for New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers...
, Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot is an American poet. She is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, including most recently, The Bigger World and Sunny Wednesday . She has also recently published a limited-edition collection of translations of the poems of Tristan Corbière, as Poet By Default...
, Joel Brouwer
Joel Brouwer
Joel Brouwer is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is And So .He is also the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."In addition...
, Pablo Medina, Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. She has published several books of poetry, most recently The Radiant . In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire...
, Jason Schneiderman
Jason Schneiderman
-Life:He graduated from University of Maryland, and NYU with an MFA. He taught at Hunter College, and Hofstra University. He is completing a PhD at City University of New York....
, and Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is an American writer and poet born in Massachusetts in 1974. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
.
Authors have been recipients of the Rome Prize
Rome Prize
The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...
, The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA fellowships, and many other honors. A recent title was also a finalist for the National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
.
Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and many other publications.
Awards given by Four Way Books include the Levis Poetry Prize and the Four Way Books Intro Prize. The press also sponsors a reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club
Bowery Poetry Club
The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002. Located at 308 Bowery, between Bleecker and Houston Streets in Manhattan's East Village, the BPC provides a home base for established and upcoming artists...
, called Readings on the Bowery, featuring FWB authors and writers from across the country.