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.New York State Literary Tree Website > Small Press Detail > Four Way Books, Inc. The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes,Poets & Writers Articles Four Way Books at Twenty-Five by Nadia Q. Ahmad 5.29.18 who is the author of five poetry collections.Martha Rhodes Wikipedia Article Four Way Books titles are distributed by University of Chicago Press.University of Chicago Press Distribution Publishers The press has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts,NEA: 2009 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence: Literature and The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program.Four Way Books Homepage
Authors Representative 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,The New York Times Books Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame by Alexandra Alter April 22, 2015 the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,Claremont Graduate University News April 7, 2021 John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Named 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner the Rome Prize, The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, 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 AwardNational Book Foundation Books Fantasia for the Man in Blue Four Way Books authors have been interviewed on the PBS NewsHour,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 regional90.5 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 and national radio,NPR Fresh Air Author Interviews In 'Bastards of The Reagan Era' A Poet Says His Generation Was 'Just Lost' December 8, 2015NPR Arts & Life Weekend Edition Interview by Scott Simon For Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gregory Pardlo, Poetry Offers 'Intimacy' Between Strangers May 14, 2016 and print media,The Paris Review The Expression of Not Knowing: An Interview with Kevin Prufer by Robyn Creswell March 7, 2014Columbia Journal Interviews, Poetry From City to City: An Interview with Cynthia Cruz by Brian Wiora January 22, 2019 including The New York Times.The New York Times Books Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame by Alexandra Alter April 22, 2015
Recognition Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in The New Yorker,The New Yorker Website > Books Briefly Noted > National Anthem by Kevin Prufer > April 28, 2008 Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly Book Review Bad Daughter by Sarah Gorham 10/24/2011 Library Journal,Library Journal Book Review by Barbara Hoffert March 1, 2018 The Affliction: A Novel in Stories by C. Dale Young Kirkus Reviews,Kirkus Reviews Book Reviews In the Mouth by Eileen Pollack March 1, 2008 Booklist,Booklist Reviews Kontemporary American Poetry by John Murillo March 1, 2020 and many other publications. The press has been profiled in The New York Times Arts Beat, The New York Times Arts Beat Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books By Dana Jennings July 17, 2014 and in Poets & Writers.Poets & Writers Articles Four Way Books at Twenty-Five by Nadia Q. Ahmad 5.29.18 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."Los Angeles Review of Books Essay Portrait of a Press: Four Way Books, 20 Years On December By Jeremy Glazier 20, 2012
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.Four Way Books Website What We Do Four Way Books + Friends Program2016 AWP Conference Schedule Four Way Books & Friends Offsite (Short) Readings 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."Poets & Writers Articles Four Way Books at Twenty-Five by Nadia Q. Ahmad 5.29.18
References
Sources Four Way Books Website, Various Pages
External links Four Way Books Website
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