David "Awesome" Lawrence, former professional boxer, former CEO, trainer at Gleason's Gym, ex-con, English Ph.D., poet, author of the forthcoming Lane Changes will appear on New York radio station WKCR this Tuesday, 3rd July, at 9.30pm. David will be interviewed by Eric Hirsch about the changes that have governed his life, about the inspiration for his debut collection of poems, and about what it means to be a boxer and poet. He'll also read from Lane Changes . The show is called "Arts and Answers."
If you miss David on the radio, you'll be able to catch him at two readings in November: Saturday 17th November at 6pm at Gleason's Gym, and Thursday 29th November at 7pm at McNally Robinson bookstore in Soho, when Four Way Books launches its Fall list with readings by David, Laurel Blossom ( Degrees of Latitude ), April Ossmann ( Anxious Music ), and Spring author Terri Ford ( Why the Ships are She ).
About Lane Changes :
The boxing ring. The interior of a federal prison. Where your luck runs out and you find yourself living on instinct and chance. Making a comeback, hitting the canvas, picking yourself up and beginning again. The wild, aggressive, unapologetic poems of Lane Changes : will take you on the most extraordinary ride, from encounters with John Gotti to the way a thrown punch can be an expression of affection. “Your injuries are a form of dialogue with loneliness,” writes Lawrence, and his poetry makes us look at despair and sadness alongside exhilaration. This is book that soars the highs and plumbs the depths, finding that it’s often difficult to tell the difference.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
Four Way Books June Reading Period
Four Way Books invites you to submit Poetry and Fiction manuscripts during their June Reading Period.
In recent years Four Way has accepted Sarah Manguso's Siste Viator (2006) and C.S. Carrier's forthcoming After Dayton (2008).
Please click on the link above for full details about what and how to submit, and for more information on how the reading period works.
In recent years Four Way has accepted Sarah Manguso's Siste Viator (2006) and C.S. Carrier's forthcoming After Dayton (2008).
Please click on the link above for full details about what and how to submit, and for more information on how the reading period works.
Jeffrey Harrison reviewed by P. H. Liotta in the Chautauqua Literary Journal
Incomplete Knowledge has been called a "major achievement" in an insightful review by P.H. Liotta:
"In America, poetry remains the isolated art. And the quiet genius of Jeffrey Harrison, clearly, requires space and meditation. Yet, Incomplete Knowledge , while driven with the same polish and technique of his earlier work, goes much, much further. His lines are looser, images more direct, and his impact is often astonishing. For any reader, there is true discovery here. A poet of Harrison's genius is uncommon."
Catch Jeffrey reading at Bryant Park this week:
The Academy of American Poets presents:
Bryant Park Word for Word Poetry Series
Tuesday, June 12
Jeffrey Harrison, Peter Gizzi, and Jon Woodward
6:30 p.m.
You can read some of his work from Incomplete Knowledge on Ted Kooser's web site American Life in Poetry
Jeffrey will be reading in Maine, Minneapolis, Cambridge and elsewhere in MA during the summer and fall...keep visiting this blog for full details.
"In America, poetry remains the isolated art. And the quiet genius of Jeffrey Harrison, clearly, requires space and meditation. Yet, Incomplete Knowledge , while driven with the same polish and technique of his earlier work, goes much, much further. His lines are looser, images more direct, and his impact is often astonishing. For any reader, there is true discovery here. A poet of Harrison's genius is uncommon."
Catch Jeffrey reading at Bryant Park this week:
The Academy of American Poets presents:
Bryant Park Word for Word Poetry Series
Tuesday, June 12
Jeffrey Harrison, Peter Gizzi, and Jon Woodward
6:30 p.m.
You can read some of his work from Incomplete Knowledge on Ted Kooser's web site American Life in Poetry
Jeffrey will be reading in Maine, Minneapolis, Cambridge and elsewhere in MA during the summer and fall...keep visiting this blog for full details.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Sarah Manguso awarded Rome Prize
Four Way Books is delighted to congratulate Sarah Manguso, author of Siste Viator on receiving the highly sought after Rome Prize from the American Academy , chosen by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sarah Manguso will spend a year at the American Academy in Rome.
Of Siste Viator , Dave Eggers has commented: "Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece)."
Congratulations, Sarah.
Sarah Manguso will spend a year at the American Academy in Rome.
Of Siste Viator , Dave Eggers has commented: "Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece)."
Congratulations, Sarah.
Four Way Books Annual Benefit
Over the last year Four Way Books authors have been the proud recipients of prizes including the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber Award, the American Academy's distinguished Rome Prize, and many more, as well as receiving wonderful critical reviews in Publishers Weekly, ForeWord, The Constant Critic, and numerous other places.
On Thursday May 8th from 7 to 9pm Four Way Books will host its annual Benefit at Poets House, 72 Spring Street. This event is an important fundraiser to support the work of the press, which currently publishes around 8 books of poetry a year.
There will be refreshments, short readings by Ellen Dudley, C. Dale Young, John Gallaher, and Cammy Thomas, and conversation.
Tickets for the event are $100 per person; RSVP at four_way_editors@yahoo.com. Your donation is tax deductible and will assist the press with its publishing, reading series, and residential program for writers.
Four Way Books would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate all its authors on their many wonderful achievements over the past year, and to thank anyone who has bought or read a Four Way book over the year. Look out for our new releases in stores now, and exciting titles to come in November.
On Thursday May 8th from 7 to 9pm Four Way Books will host its annual Benefit at Poets House, 72 Spring Street. This event is an important fundraiser to support the work of the press, which currently publishes around 8 books of poetry a year.
There will be refreshments, short readings by Ellen Dudley, C. Dale Young, John Gallaher, and Cammy Thomas, and conversation.
Tickets for the event are $100 per person; RSVP at four_way_editors@yahoo.com. Your donation is tax deductible and will assist the press with its publishing, reading series, and residential program for writers.
Four Way Books would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate all its authors on their many wonderful achievements over the past year, and to thank anyone who has bought or read a Four Way book over the year. Look out for our new releases in stores now, and exciting titles to come in November.
C. Dale Young / John Gallaher NYC Readings
To celebrate the release of their second books, The Second Person and The Little Book of Guesses, C. Dale Young and John Gallaher will be reading in New York City in May:
C. Dale Young and John Gallaher read with Kimiko Hahn and Lynn Emanuel
Sunday, May 6 at Bowery Poetry Club, Readings on the Bowery Series
308 Bowery, NYC
2:00pm ($8 inc. $2 at the bar)
C . Dale Young and John Gallaher read with Linda Gregerson
Monday, May 7
Readings Between A and B
7:30pm (Free)
These are both wonderful reading series at great poetry venues, and C. Dale and John are exciting readers. Check them out!
C. Dale Young and John Gallaher read with Kimiko Hahn and Lynn Emanuel
Sunday, May 6 at Bowery Poetry Club, Readings on the Bowery Series
308 Bowery, NYC
2:00pm ($8 inc. $2 at the bar)
C . Dale Young and John Gallaher read with Linda Gregerson
Monday, May 7
Readings Between A and B
7:30pm (Free)
These are both wonderful reading series at great poetry venues, and C. Dale and John are exciting readers. Check them out!
C. Dale Young reads at the LA Times Festival of Books
On Saturday April 28th C. Dale Young will read from his new book, The Second Person , in the Poetry Tent at the LA Times Festival of Books.
He will be reading at 4.30pm ( See Full Schedule) - if you're in the area go along to cheer him on and hear some great poetry!
And scroll down for C. Dale's STARRED Publisher's Weekly Review.
He will be reading at 4.30pm ( See Full Schedule) - if you're in the area go along to cheer him on and hear some great poetry!
And scroll down for C. Dale's STARRED Publisher's Weekly Review.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Emerson Would Have Liked Four Way Books
* National Poetry Month on the Four Way Books blog *
John Gallaher's The Little Book of Guesses and Jeffrey Harrison's Incomplete Knowledge were included in David Kirby's Atlanta Journal Constitution National Poetry Month roundup:
"I'd like to think Emerson would also be entertained by a second batch of books I took pleasure in this year [...] In two cases, the titles themselves give away the author's pose of uncertainty: There's "Incomplete Knowledge" by Jeffrey Harrison, for example (Four Way Books, $14.95), as well as John Gallaher's "The Little Book of Guesses" (Four Way Books, $14.95)."
Follow the link at the top for the whole round-up.
John Gallaher's The Little Book of Guesses and Jeffrey Harrison's Incomplete Knowledge were included in David Kirby's Atlanta Journal Constitution National Poetry Month roundup:
"I'd like to think Emerson would also be entertained by a second batch of books I took pleasure in this year [...] In two cases, the titles themselves give away the author's pose of uncertainty: There's "Incomplete Knowledge" by Jeffrey Harrison, for example (Four Way Books, $14.95), as well as John Gallaher's "The Little Book of Guesses" (Four Way Books, $14.95)."
Follow the link at the top for the whole round-up.
Book Sense Top Ten Poetry: Jeffrey Harrison Incomplete Knowledge
* National Poetry Month on the Four Way Books Blog *
Four Way Books is delighted to congratulate Jeffrey Harrison on making it to the Book Sense list of the Top Ten Poetry books for the past year.
The list is based on the nominations of independent booksellers across the nation, and represents a tremendous vote of confidence in Incomplete Knowledge.
A wonderful review of Jeffrey's book by Jordan Davis at The Constant Critic . Other reviews can be found at the Virginia Quarterly Review and ForeWord .
Listen to a poem from the book, read by Garrison Keillor on Sunday 25th February.
Read poems from Incomplete Knowledge on Poetry Daily , including the title poem
Incomplete Knowledge is Jeffrey Harrison's fourth book. It was published November 2006, and is available from all good booksellers - especially good independent booksellers!
Four Way Books is delighted to congratulate Jeffrey Harrison on making it to the Book Sense list of the Top Ten Poetry books for the past year.
The list is based on the nominations of independent booksellers across the nation, and represents a tremendous vote of confidence in Incomplete Knowledge.
A wonderful review of Jeffrey's book by Jordan Davis at The Constant Critic . Other reviews can be found at the Virginia Quarterly Review and ForeWord .
Listen to a poem from the book, read by Garrison Keillor on Sunday 25th February.
Read poems from Incomplete Knowledge on Poetry Daily , including the title poem
Incomplete Knowledge is Jeffrey Harrison's fourth book. It was published November 2006, and is available from all good booksellers - especially good independent booksellers!
Monday, March 26, 2007
Book Launch, Reading: Dudley, Hamer, Voigt
Please join us for a book launch and readings from:
Ellen Dudley, The Geographic Cure Four Way Books
Forrest Hamer, Rift , Four Way Books
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger , WW Norton
Sunday, April 15 at 2:00 p.m.
Poets House 72 Spring Street
Readings, Signings, Refreshments
Free admission
RSVP as space is limited
A Four Way Books sponsored event.
We are grateful to Poets House for their generous rental terms.
Ellen Dudley, The Geographic Cure Four Way Books
Forrest Hamer, Rift , Four Way Books
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger , WW Norton
Sunday, April 15 at 2:00 p.m.
Poets House 72 Spring Street
Readings, Signings, Refreshments
Free admission
RSVP as space is limited
A Four Way Books sponsored event.
We are grateful to Poets House for their generous rental terms.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
C. Dale Young receives Starred Publishers Weekly Review
This week's Publishers' Weekly contains a glowing review of C. Dale Young's second book, which Four Way is publishing this April. Congratulations, C. Dale!
STARRED REVIEW The Second Person
C. Dale Young. Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $14.95 (88p)
ISBN 978-1-884800-76-7
The title of Young’s second collection evokes the book’s many concerns: romantic partnership and sex (especially between two men), the nature of the other, and the “you” to whom many of these poems are addressed. Young’s preoccupation with the body comes from his medical background (he is a practicing physician) filtered through an aesthete’s attention to form and lyric (most of these poems are in near tercets). Young’s speakers are caught between the desire to understand and the desire to simply desire: “It is not the bone beneath the skin that I kiss/ but the silence clinging to the skull’s curve.” The poems come to the page already burdened by a doctor’s knowledge that mortality rules over even love, and the natural world becomes an analogy for human suffering: “the rain spreads like a bruise over the ocean.” The excellent long poem “Triptych at the Edge of Sight” sketches a blurry romantic “landscape filled with failure” whose all-too-human inhabitants may or may not find spiritual consolation. When Young’s two worlds—the medical and the metaphorical—merge, they create a love poetry that is sublime because and in spite of its knowledge. (Apr.)
STARRED REVIEW The Second Person
C. Dale Young. Four Way (UPNE, dist.), $14.95 (88p)
ISBN 978-1-884800-76-7
The title of Young’s second collection evokes the book’s many concerns: romantic partnership and sex (especially between two men), the nature of the other, and the “you” to whom many of these poems are addressed. Young’s preoccupation with the body comes from his medical background (he is a practicing physician) filtered through an aesthete’s attention to form and lyric (most of these poems are in near tercets). Young’s speakers are caught between the desire to understand and the desire to simply desire: “It is not the bone beneath the skin that I kiss/ but the silence clinging to the skull’s curve.” The poems come to the page already burdened by a doctor’s knowledge that mortality rules over even love, and the natural world becomes an analogy for human suffering: “the rain spreads like a bruise over the ocean.” The excellent long poem “Triptych at the Edge of Sight” sketches a blurry romantic “landscape filled with failure” whose all-too-human inhabitants may or may not find spiritual consolation. When Young’s two worlds—the medical and the metaphorical—merge, they create a love poetry that is sublime because and in spite of its knowledge. (Apr.)
Deborah Bernhardt Reading / Talk in Arizona
Deborah Bernhardt, Sawako Nakayasu, and Catherine Wing
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007, 8:00PM
Poetry Center’s “Next Word in Poetry” Series
The University of Arizona, Modern Languages Auditorium, Tucson, Arizona
Deborah Bernhardt, Sawako Nakayasu, and Catherine Wing
Friday, March 23rd, 2007, 1:00PM
Panel Discussion: "New Trends in Contemporary Poetry"
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Deborah Bernhardt Reading at AWP Atlanta
TUCSON LITERARY GROUPS PRESENT HOT READING FOR THIS YEAR'S AWP IN
ATLANTA: University of Arizona Poetry Center, Kore Press, Cue,
Sonora Review, and Casa Libre
Thursday, March 1 from 8-10:30 p.m. at Midtown Tavern, 554 Piedmont
Avenue. From the Atlanta Hilton walk 5 blocks north on Courtland,
make a right on Linden, make a right on Piedmont, you're there.
Readers are: Cara Adams, Renee Angle, Deborah Bernhardt , William Bert,
Shannon Cain, Diana Delgado, Donald Dunbar, Ann M. Fine, Deborah
Fries, Charlie Jensen, Sandra Lim, Elline Lipkin, Sawako Nakayasu,
Kristen Nelson, Jena Osman, Rodney Phillips, Michael Rerick, Frances
Sjoberg, Joshua Marie Wilkinson.
Readings will be about 5 minutes each and good times will be all night long.
For more information at AWP stop by Casa Libre, Kore Press, or UA
Poetry Center tables in the 270 block of the AWP Book Fair.
Friday, February 23, 2007
John Gallaher on an AWP Panel
What to do on the first March of Thursday after lunch in Atlanta? Listen to John Gallaher, whose second poetry collection, The Little Book of Guesses , won the 2006 Levis Prize from Four Way, talking about John Ashbery. Then head into the Bookfair to buy John's book and our other four Spring releases by C. Dale Young, Ellen Dudley, Terri Ford , and Forrest Hamer . Table 90, folks.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Salon C
2nd Floor
R170
The Hilton
Ashbery at 80.
(Susan Wheeler, Donald Revell, Kathleen Ossip, Wayne Miller, Randall Mann, John Gallaher)
Since the publication of his Yale Series winning first book, Some Trees, over fifty years ago, John Ashbery's influence has been everywhere apparent in American poetry. In this, his 80th year, six diverse poets come together to speak toward an understanding and celebration of John Ashbery's singular achievement and genius.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Salon C
2nd Floor
R170
The Hilton
Ashbery at 80.
(Susan Wheeler, Donald Revell, Kathleen Ossip, Wayne Miller, Randall Mann, John Gallaher)
Since the publication of his Yale Series winning first book, Some Trees, over fifty years ago, John Ashbery's influence has been everywhere apparent in American poetry. In this, his 80th year, six diverse poets come together to speak toward an understanding and celebration of John Ashbery's singular achievement and genius.
Four Way Fiction Writer Eileen Pollack selected for 2007 Best American Short Stories
Four Way Books is delighted to congratulate Eileen Pollack, whose story 'The Bris' has been selected by Heidi Pitlor and Stephen King for inclusion in the 2007 Best American Short Stories, to be published by Houghton Mifflin.
Eileen Pollack's newest fiction collection, In the Mouth, will be published Spring 2008 by Four Way Books. 'The Bris' appeared in Subtropics issue 1 . She is the author of The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories, which the Washington Post included on its list of favorite books of the past 25 years, and the novel Paradise, New York. Her book-length work of creative nonfiction, Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, won a 2003 WILLA Finalist Award.
If you're visiting AWP Atlanta, Eileen Pollack will be reading on Thursday at 10.30 at a Subtropics reading introduced by David Leavitt, editor of the magazine. Other readers include Kent Annan, Geoffrey Brock, David Galef, Randall Mann, and Padma Viswanathan.
Eileen Pollack's newest fiction collection, In the Mouth, will be published Spring 2008 by Four Way Books. 'The Bris' appeared in Subtropics issue 1 . She is the author of The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories, which the Washington Post included on its list of favorite books of the past 25 years, and the novel Paradise, New York. Her book-length work of creative nonfiction, Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, won a 2003 WILLA Finalist Award.
If you're visiting AWP Atlanta, Eileen Pollack will be reading on Thursday at 10.30 at a Subtropics reading introduced by David Leavitt, editor of the magazine. Other readers include Kent Annan, Geoffrey Brock, David Galef, Randall Mann, and Padma Viswanathan.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Book of Jobs by Kathryn Maris selected as a ForeWord Finalist
ForeWord Magazine announced today the finalists for its annual Book of the Year awards. We're delighted to congratulate Kathryn Maris whose debut collection, The Books of Jobs, is a finalist.
The winner will be announced at Book Expo America and in ForeWord in June.
Kathryn Maris was born in New York and educated at Columbia University and Boston University. She has held two poetry fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and residencies at both Yaddo and the Ragdale Foundation. Her poems have appeared in magazines such as American Poet, Fence, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and in New Voices: University and College Prizes, an anthology edited by Heather McHugh. In addition, she regularly publishes essays and book reviews in British and American periodicals. Currently she is an editor at Poetry London magazine, and a lecturer in creative writing at Morley College in south London. She divides her time between London and New York City.
Reading: Sarah Manguso, Smith College
Tuesday 27th February at 7.30pm
Smith College
Four Way Books author Sarah Manguso (Siste Viator ) will read with Kevin Prufer, whose book Four Way will publish in our 2008-9 season.
Of Siste Viator , Dave Eggers has commented: "Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne Carson's ne'er-do-well niece)."
Sunday, February 18, 2007
FWB at AWP Atlanta
Four Way Books will of course be at AWP Atlanta, February 28th to March 3rd. You'll be able to find us, lots of books, discount prices AND several of our authors at Table 90. Book signings are taking place on Friday, and you'll be able to get your hands on early copies of our new releases for Spring 2007 by Ellen Dudley, John Gallaher, C. Dale Young, and Forrest Hamer, as well as books by Deborah Bernhardt, Catherine Bowman, and Jeffrey Harrison.
Martha Rhodes, founder and publisher of Four Way Books, will be speaking on a panel called LITERARY START UPS, moderated by Joan Houlihan, on Thursday March 1, 12-1.15. Panelists are: Garrick Davis, Steven Cramer, Fred Marchant, Jeffrey Levine and Martha Rhodes.Do stop by and say hello!
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And 2008 will mark Four Way Books' 15th anniversary! You'll find details of the events and hootenannies we're planning here.
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