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Fall 2014
Spring 2015
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Fall 2014 POETRY
The Invisible Kingdom
Over the Orinoco
Through the black fields
Of what once was Eden.
A queen in a glass
Palanquin,
I slept through the burning
Author Photo: Steven Paige
And was laid flat on the grass
Like a child
Dragged in from the ocean.
In the morning, three singing women arrived.
They slit open the lung of my belly.
But there were no babies inside,
Cynthia Cruz’s poems have been published in
American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon
Review, The New Yorker, Paris Review, and other
magazines. Her first collection of poems, Ruin, was
published by Alice James Books and her second
collection, The Glimmering Room, was published
by Four Way Books in 2012. She has received
fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony
as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton
University. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College
and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Just green sea foam and jewelEncrusted earthworms.
These words, this terrible song.
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Fall 2014 POETRY
“I’m anguished—and utterly
exhilarated—by this book. Its
electrifying reckoning with whole
worlds of trauma has this poet’s powers
ratcheted up to 11, but the speakers aren’t
blown out: it’s not volume that’s turned
up high but emotion, articulation, and
the bright amazing line connecting the
two. Cruz is astonishing. This book
is not merely beautiful or frightening
(though it is both to extremes) but very
deeply weird, weird by necessity to
find the truth of intense suffering, and
extraordinarily precise. The poet’s
clarity doesn’t narrow or exclude; it
deepens, dives. . . . Cruz exposes that
glorious hell that is having a history,
having a body, remembering everything
and trying to make something good of
it. She makes something brilliant of it:
fearless close-to-the-bone truthtelling
and a triumphant work of art.”
—Brenda Shaughnessy
“Cynthia Cruz’s daring new book is not
just a cabinet of wonders but a carefully
curated underworld of thought,
memory, and dream. These dark and
commanding poems touch the crisis
that lies at the very edge of perception.
Their crystalline, Baudelairean vision
will haunt, trouble, and astonish you.”
—Elizabeth Willis
WUNDERKAMMER
Cynthia Cruz
Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-47-5 •
Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 72 pages • 6 x 9
Also read The Glimmering Room
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Fall 2014 POETRY
Past Praise for David Dodd Lee
“Highly dynamic, irreverent, subversive,
and driven by a kinetic music that often
breaks into riot, The Nervous Filaments
is equal parts burning car and predatory
rain, an unstable, hugely intelligent
electrical box that bleeds.”
—Nick Sturm, The Laurel Review
“This collection reads very much like
a memory of some long forgotten,
nonexistent place that we so desperately
want to (re)discover. It is a melancholic
remembering, an evolutionary ache,
that unexplainable and universal feeling
we wake up with each morning.”
—Kay Cosgrove, Gulf Coast
“Obsessively, elegantly, poignantly,
David Dodd Lee immerses himself in
the mysterious intercourse of self and
place.”
—Franz Wright
Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-48-2 •
Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 68 pages • 6 x 9
Also read The Nervous Filaments
and Arrow Pointing North
“Once in a while, a book of poems is so
unmemorable that I forget it’s in my
hands; once in a longer while, a book
will stick in me like a spear. A grievous
and gorgeous tour of things-have-goneto-pieces-since-you-left-me America,
David Dodd Lee’s The Nervous Filaments
is most certainly of the latter class.
There is no sleep so deep I would not
hear it there.”
—Graham Foust
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Fall 2014 POETRY
Author Photo: Louise Mathias
I’ll Be Right With You
I flipped a coin into
a soda bottle and
wanted to believe in
something I had yet to
discover. Like when one
of my pills rolls across
the kitchen floor. You’d think
there was a great order
underlying all things.
David Dodd Lee is the author of eight previous
books of poems, including The Nervous Filaments
(Four Way Books, 2010). He is the editor of two
poetry / fiction anthologies: Shade 2004 & 2006
(Four Way Books) and The Other Life: the Selected
Poems of Herbert Scott (Carnegie Mellon, 2010).
His poems have appeared in Court Green, Denver
Quarterly, Field, Jacket, The Nation, Nerve, and in
many other places. He is also a visual artist, writes
and publishes fiction, publishes chapbooks and
full-length titles as editor-in-chief of 42 Miles
Press, and teaches classes in poetry, publishing, art
history, and the art of collage at Indiana University
South Bend, where he is assistant professor of
English. He lives in Osceola, east of South Bend,
where he kayaks and fishes on Baugo Bay.
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Fall 2014 POETRY
The Burning Ones
The seraphim hovering over the city
thunder holy holy holy.
They moan and moan
Author Photo: An Rong Xu
that lone word—a prayer
strangled in their sober throats. We hoist
umbrellas to joust their sobs
flushing from above like crushed stars.
We ignore that gold chord
droning
Eugenia Leigh is the recipient of awards and fellowships
from The Asian American Literary Review, Kundiman, Poets
& Writers Magazine, and Rattle. She earned her MFA from
Sarah Lawrence College, and her poems and essays have
appeared in numerous publications including The Collagist,
North American Review, and the Best New Poets 2010 anthology.
Eugenia serves as poetry editor of Kartika Review and lives in
Chicago.
and droning. We know nothing
of glory. The sky, to the polluted eye,
black as asphalt.
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Fall 2014 POETRY
“This book went through me like
a blue lightning strike. Part lyric,
part narrative, and always alive,
unflinchingly alive. A wonderful book
and an even more astonishing debut!”
—Thomas Lux
“Whether in furious psalm or
impassioned testimony, the woman we
meet in these poems is sharply aware
that any kind of answer fragments
into further questions. And she is
committed to such undertakings. In
Eugenia Leigh’s moving debut
collection, Blood, Sparrows and
Sparrows, the reader is drawn into a
childhood that is ‘My father’s voice
full of boils’ ... ‘I offer God 1997’ ...
‘angel hunting’ ... ‘my mother’s
voice / flapping in my blood: If you
need to run, run’ ...and daring to ‘hate
the dead’. Join her in this resolve.”
—Kimiko Hahn
“Built out of blood and awe, rooted
in sorrow and radiant lyricism, these
poems remind us that ‘to survive is
to be / wholly human.’ Divine and
earthly voices haunt these poems. God
and parents singe the speaker’s heart;
angels and sisters redeem it. These
poems are brutal and brilliant. But
also instructive. They teach us to ‘weld
our wounds / to form tools.’
This is a book of moving and startling
epiphanies. I can’t wait to teach it.”
—Eduardo Corral
Blood,
Sparrows
and Sparrows
EugEnia LEigh
Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-49-9 •
Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 84 pages • 6 x 9
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Fall 2014 POETRY
GREGORY
PARDLO
DIGEST
Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-50-5 •
Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 84 pages • 6 x 9
“A bright-red thread of fatherhood
runs through this book—at times
tenuous, at times mythic—always
searching and revelatory, grounded in
our present moment while wrestling
with eternity—a thrilling, brilliant, and
deeply moving ride.”
—Nick Flynn
“Gregory Pardlo renders history just
as clearly and palpably as he renders
New York City, or Copenhagen, or his
native New Jersey. But mostly what he
renders is America, with its intractable
conundrums and its clashing
iconographies. With lines that balance
poise and a jam-packed visceral music,
and images that glimmer and seethe
together like a conflagration, these
poems are a showcase for Pardlo’s ample
and agile mind, his courageous social
conscience, and his mighty voice.”
—Tracy K. Smith
“In an age of poems crafted to resemble
linguistic balloon-animals or sheets
of floral wallpaper, it is rare to find an
American poet thinking seriously about
anything. . . . Smart and humane, Digest
engages in lyricized textual analysis,
playful philosophical exegesis, and
satirical syllabi building, even as it
evokes a Whitmanesque Brooklyn of the
21st Century that Pardlo inhabits with a
‘neighborknowing confidence and ease.’
These are poems that delight the ear,
encourage the heart, and nourish the
brain.”
—Campbell McGrath
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Fall 2014 POETRY
from Problemata
Author Photo: Rahel Eliza Grifftths
I finally friended my brother.
It may be we will never
speak again. Why speak
when we have this crystal ball
through which
to judge one another’s lives?
I imagine this is what
the afterlife will be like.
I’m ghost, we say
instead of goodbye.
Gregory Pardlo’s first book, Totem, received the
American Poetry Review / Honickman Prize in 2007.
His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,
Boston Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, Tin House,
as well as anthologies including Angles of Ascent,
the Norton Anthology of Contemporary African
American Poetry, and two editions of Best American
Poetry. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship and a fellowship for
translation from the National Endowment for the
Arts. An associate editor of Callaloo, he is currently
a teaching fellow in Undergraduate Writing at
Columbia University.
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Fall 2014 POETRY
Her Green Shoes
Author Photo: Claire Siesfeld
Her grass green shoes
pass through our closets,
their tongues broken.
We hover over them,
expecting them to stir,
like stalks in wind.
Our mother wore them
to go dancing,
slender in a pale silk dress,
and wore them
when she went for good—
click click, her heels.
Cammy Thomas is the author of Cathedral of Wish (Four
Way Books), which received the 2006 Norma Farber First
Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, selected
by Medbh McGuckian. Thomas’s poems have recently
appeared in Appalachia, Bateau, The Classical Outlook,
The Healing Muse, and Ibbetson Street Press. The recipient
of a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, she lives
in Lexington, Massachusetts, and teaches literature and
creative writing at Concord Academy.
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Fall 2014 POETRY
“The poems of Cammy Thomas’s
second collection, Inscriptions, have an
emotional ferocity and lyric intensity
that cut to the quick of desolating loss
and fraught family legacies. ‘Air froze as
they breathed it, icicles / in the lungs.
They were pierced / by that which
melted and left no trace,’ she writes in
‘The Emperor of Oyster Bay,’ the poem
capturing in its final image the very
essence of woundedness—the painful
thing that leaves no trace but shapes,
and makes, a life. These are poems that
seek what endures beyond lack and the
fragile consolations of a seemingly allconsuming world. The implacable balm
Thomas offers, and the mercy, is her
refusal to look away.”
—Daniel Tobin
Inscriptions
Cammy Thomas
Publication Date: October 2014 • 978-1-935536-46-8 •
Poetry • $15.95 • Paper, 72 pages • 6 x 9
Also read The Cathedral of Wish
“‘All that is personal soon rots,’ wrote
Yeats, ‘unless it is packed in ice and
salt.’ His words seem a fitting herald for
the stark poems of Cammy Thomas’s
Inscriptions—words exact, incised, cut
deep—and not one word more than
will suffice. In a world not made for
us, the implacable is given voice in an
unadorned, unerring Anglo-Saxon—
written with a candor that is its own
searing source of light.
—Eleanor Wilner
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Spring Forward to 2015 FICTION
Liam Callanan
“Over and over Callanan finds that moment when a character’s past, their deepest
longings, their most intimate fears, emerge from the flood waters of daily life and stand
exposed. These richly imagined and beautifully written stories transport the reader from
TV studios to lonely woods, from an old convent to a new gym, from war-time Alaska to
the beach at Santa Monica. The result is a wonderfully readable and hugely pleasurable
collection.”
—Margot Livesey
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
Furs Not MiNe
ANdreA CoheN
“Furs Not Mine is a book full of completely new form and tone. To call this work
‘intricately crafted’ is an understatement, but needs to be said. Reading these poems,
one feels a little afraid to breathe, that to shift a comma or change a line break would be
to blow down the cathedral that’s been built out of grains of sand. This is craft, but it’s
also infused with mystical moments, sacred intuitions. Delicate and difficult, these are
some of the most memorable poems I’ve ever read. Period.”
—Laura Kasischke
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
SerieS | india
elizabeth t. gray, jr.
“With her invocation of John Ashbery at the head of her long poem, Elizabeth Gray
takes aim at an older mood that surrealism and modernism divided between them:
Shakespearean woe-or-wonder, the Sublime, and the marvel. Her little band of American
travelers, in their muddled breakthrough passage to India, refracts what the writer more
clearly and subtly has found there. As one of several works that will be geographically
centered while plotted by ‘field,’ it commences a spiritual adventure, a passage through
India and on out.”
—John Peck
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
Lighting
ShADOW
thE
RAChEL ELiZA gRiFFithS
“Lighting the Shadow is a unique embodiment of the unseen space between language and
spirit. In bristling eloquence, Griffiths has written about history as the embodiment of
personal loss, about the soul’s traveled landscape in the inner breath of what constitutes
gender and humanity. The imagery in these poems rips through to the reader with a
freshness that comes only from a poet who knows the terrain of the subconscious, the
place where speech and gesture, word and act, water and stone form the invisible reality.
The figure of the mystic in the body of mythos, these poems are astonishing and tangible
as Johnny Cash’s black suit. This is the brand of a sincerity in suffering that has made of
itself the deepest compassion. Lighting the Shadow is as much about the truer definition
of art as it is about the subjects that live inside it. Bravo.”
—Afaa Michael Weaver
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
TIDAL
Josh Kalscheur
WINNER OF THE
FOUR WAY BOOKS
LEVIS PRIZE IN POETRY
“Some great books of poems feel driven by the play of language, endlessly inventive syntax
propelling us headlong down the page. Other great books feel driven by conviction, the
poet enraptured by a world that feels bigger, messier than the language at hand. Josh
Kalscheur’s Tidal is both these books at once. Set from start to finish in the seductively
claustrophobic culture of Micronesia, the poems make the act of recording the world seem
indistinguishable from an act of the highest imagination. Every perspective (male, female,
old, young, outsider, insider) is rendered here in a language whose inventiveness feels
inexhaustible—syntax, line, and diction colluding to build poems that are themselves the
world in which the poet walks. This world, the world of human suffering, human folly,
belongs to all of us, but the language—pulsing, tender, giddy, suave—is Josh Kalscheur’s
alone.”
—James Longenbach, judge
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
Pax americana
Paul Otremba
“Reading this book, I felt the world I live in melt away. Each story is so different from
the next, each character a little code to be cracked, each time period and geographical
location completely convincing, each life thoroughly absorbing. A strange,
illuminating, and compelling book. Like falling into a cloud.”
—Monica Wood
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
Repetition
Rebecca Reilly
“Rebecca Reilly’s admirably stark account of grief is as laconic as Anne Carson at her
rigorous best. Reilly writes about brokenness in phrases that feel divinely secure. Her
voice has a durable core, rooted in wry wisdom and in musical honesty. Through poetic
simplicity and philosophical profundity, Repetition weaves a mesmeric spell, its deathless
words arranged with uncommon beauty.”
—Wayne Koestenbaum
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Spring Forward to 2015 POETRY
The Names
of Birds
Daniel Wolff
“The poems in The Names of Birds aren’t really about birds. Instead each individual
species is a filter through which the human is seen, so that observation and
introspection become overlaid and compounded acts. These poems show us the more
accurately we can look outward, the more deeply we can see within our human selves.”
—Lucia Perillo
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Around the Corner
Fall 2015
J. Mae Barizo
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Laurel Blossom
Patrick Ryan Frank
Stephanie Ford
Rebecca Okrent
Jonathan Wells
Spring 2016
Catherine Bowman
Cynthia Cruz
Sydney Lea
Mark Levine
Rajiv Mohabir
Maya Pindyck
Daniel Tobin
C. Dale Young
Selected Reviews
“. . . a collection that’s both mordantly funny and delightfully hopeless, as Cruz’s imagination roams between several
nebenwelts (side-worlds) while indulging itself in fineries and miseries galore.” —Review of Wunderkammer by
Cynthia Cruz in Publishers Weekly, September 15, 2014
“. . .Ms. Cruz’s poems are an ecstatic overdose of language and emotion. . . Her razor-wire stanzas in The Glimmering
Room, even better than her fine debut, Ruin (Alice James Books, 2006), are full of too-young desolation angels, ‘the
other almost-girls’ and ‘the boys who want to die.’. . . This powerful poetry is a heart offering by way of Ms. Cruz’s
ancestor-sisters Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath.”—Dana Jennings, the New York Times
“All You Do Is Perceive operates mostly as a kind of constrained verse — not constrained formally, as the term is
generally applied, but constrained by a rigorously limited perspective.” —Review of All You Do Is Perceive by Joy Katz
in Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) by Alan Michael Parker, February 14, 2014
“Lauer’s poems ripple like muscle, even as they circle around the notion that we may not possess tools strong enough
to arrive at a singular definition of who and what we are….By laying bare superstitious patterns of mind that we
routinely interpret as meaning, Lauer’s poems reveal the indeterminacy of what we’re able to know…without forgoing
what beauty is to be found in the attempts we make to know it.”—Review of A Hotel in Belgium by Brett Fletcher
Lauer in Publishers Weekly, April 28, 2014
“Through delicately woven motifs, the poems in Miller’s debut collection echo and build off one another cohering
in central themes of navigation and orientation (and its inverse, disorientation).” —Review of Without Compass by
Benjamin Miller in Publishers Weekly, July 21, 2014
“Self-styled in its epigraph as ‘biomythography’ in the tradition of Audre Lorde’s Zami, the collection is strongest in
its gestures towards universality through the examination of the particular. Via a steady injection of iconography
among the details of family life, Kamilah Aisha Moon’s debut weaves a kaleidoscopic set of poems with intimate
insight and textural multiplicity.” —Review of She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon in The Rumpus by Melissa
Leigh Gore, May 14, 2014
“Through the backward glancing, Prufer uncannily circles to the present, letting it recede to make way for an
alarming future...” —Review of Churches by Kevin Prufer in Publishers Weekly, August 3, 2014
“Poet and novelist Redel knows how to freeze those serene moments that often come just before disaster. In
this collection of short prose, protagonists struggle to balance a zeal for adventure with reasonable caution. The
narrators are often parents in or nearing middle age who are startled by troubling signs in their children. Dan, the
callow narrator in ‘Red Rooster,’ preens through much of the story about his new girlfriend and ability to coparent
successfully with his ex-wife. After a chaotic outing with his son and girlfriend’s family, however, Dan hears
desperation in his son’s voice and feels ‘that he was seeing for the first time just how reckless the last couple years had
been. He couldn’t count how many times he’d claimed that the whole damaging-cost-on-the-kid argument was way
overrated.’ In ‘On Earth,’ a married mother suddenly realizes that her eccentric, survivalist-leaning lover may have
an unhealthy interest in her daughter....”—Review of Make Me Do Things by Victoria Redel in Booklist by Carolyn
Alessio, September 20, 2013
2014 Four Way Books News, Announcements, and Awards
Small Porcelain Head by Allison Benis White is a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary
Award in Poetry.
Topaz by Brian Komei Dempster is the winner of the 2014 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry.
Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto González received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from
the Academy of American Poets for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the
United States in the previous year. Unpeopled Eden is also the winner of 26th Annual Lambda
Literary Award for Gay Poetry and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from
the Publishing Triangle.
Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey is the recipient of the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award,
a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award, a nominee for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2013 IndieFab Award for Poetry.
George Kalamaras, author of The Theory and Function of Mangoes, became the Poet Laureate
of Indiana in January 2014.
She Has a Name by Kamilah Aisha Moon was a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award
for Lesbian Poetry and the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing
Triangle.
Victoria Redel has been awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and the 2014
Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Prose for her collection of stories Make Me Do Things.
January Machine by Rob Schlegel is the winner of the 2014 Grub Street Poetry Prize, selected
by Stephen Burt.
Rajiv Mohabir is the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry selected by
Brenda Shaughnessy.
Dana Jennings from the New York Times wrote a profile of Four Way Books, published on
July 17, 2014.
October 15. 2014 Four Way Books & Friends Fall 2014 Launch Reading
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Authors Out Loud: A Selection of Readings
Cynthia Cruz, Patrick Lawler, David Dodd Lee, Howard Levy, Gregory Pardlo,
and Cammy Thomas
NYU Main Bookstore
October 16, 2014 Four Way Books Fall 2014 Launch Reading
Brooklyn, NY
Cynthia Cruz, David Dodd Lee, Gregory Pardlo, and Cammy Thomas
Berl’s Poetry Shop
November 6, 2014 at 7 pm Cammy Thomas reading at Concord Bookshop
(65 Main Street) in Concord, MA
November 6, 2014 at 7 pm Rigoberto Gonzalez on Poetry Society of America Panel on
“The Voice of Women in American Poetry” with Julie Agoos, Hilton Als, Cate Marvin,
Maureen McLane, Robert Polito, and Monica de la Torre
The Graduate Center, CUNY, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
November 14, 2014 Gregory Pardlo reading at the Downtown Writer’s Center
Syracuse, NY
November 18, 2014 at 8 pm Rigoberto Gonzalez reading at Georgetown University with Natalie Diaz
Washington D.C.
May 4, 2015 The Blacksmith House with Daniel Wolff
Cambridge, MA
May 5, 2015 The Annual Four Way Books Benefit and Auction at the Bubble Lounge
with readings by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Liam Callanan, Josh Kalscheur, Daniel Wolff,
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Andrea Cohen, Paul Otremba, and Rebecca Reilly
May 6, 2015 at 6 pm readings by Paul Otremba, Josh Kalscheur, Rebecca Reilly, and Andrea Cohen
NYU Main Bookstore
May 7, 2015 at 7 pm readings by Daniel Wolff, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Liam Callanan, and
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
McNally Jackson Books
New York, NY
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Four+ Ways to Submit
The Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry
Judged by Martha Collins
In 2015, submissions will be accepted from January 1-March 31.
The Four Way Books June Reading Period
In June, our editors will read poetry, novellas, and short story collections.
It’s No Contest
For a book-length collection of poetry (approximately 48-80 pages of text) in English by a
New York City resident (5 boroughs) for a first or second collection of poems.
November 15-December 15, 2014.
Throughout the year
On rare occasion, we can read outside of our reading periods. You may query. But please
do not email a query to us during our reading periods (see above), asking if we will read
your manuscript. “Outside our reading period” means at a time other than our formal
reading calendar. It is rare that we can accommodate such a request, but we will try. In
truth, we are geared up to read during our formal periods. These are the best times to
submit. Queries may be directed to editors@fourwaybooks.com.
Four Way Review
Four Way Review (fourwayreview.com) is a biannual electronic literary journal from nonprofit, independent literary publisher Four Way Books. We publish poetry and fiction
from both established and emerging authors through our open submissions process. In
2012, we celebrated the Review’s innaugural issue and the 20th anniversary of
Four Way Books.
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We are grateful to the Jerome Foundation for a generous grant that has supported the publication of this
catalog and our books, in particular books by emerging writers from New York City.
This catalog and the publication of our books are made possible by a generous grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts.
We are also grateful for the public funds we receive from the New York State Council on the Arts,
a state agency.
We wish to thank the individuals and private foundations who have supported Four Way Books.
Four Way Books is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Four Way Books is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are greatly appreciated and may be sent via our
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