Four Way Books is an American nonprofit 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 Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher. Biography Martha Rhodes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from The New School for Social Research and her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson ...

, who is the author of five poetry collections. Four Way Books titles are distributed by University of Chicago Press. 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.

Authors

Representative authors published by Four Way Books include

Catherine Bowman Catherine Bowman (born in El Paso, Texas) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is ''Can I Finish, Please?'' (Four Way Books, 2016), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The Best American Poe ...

Reginald Dwayne Betts Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate. At age 16 he committed an armed carjacking, was prosecuted as an adult, and sentenced to nine years in prison. He started reading and writing poetry dur ...

Kevin Prufer Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, academic, editor, and essayist. His most recent books are ''How He Loved Them'' ( Four Way Books, 2018),''Churches'' ( Four Way Books, 2014), ''In A Beautiful Country'' ( Four ...

Terri Ford Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa. Notable people with the name include: *Terri Allard (born 1962), American country/folk singer/songwriter *Terri S. Armstrong, Am ...

Forrest Hamer Forrest Hamer (born 1956) is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently ''Rift'' (Four Way Books, 2007). His first collection, ''Call & Response,'' (Alice James Books) won the Bea ...

, Pimone Triplett, Yona Harvey,

Jeffrey Harrison Jeffrey W. Harrison (b. Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American poet. Born in Cincinnati, he was educated at Columbia University, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and David Shapiro. His most recent poetry collection is ''Into Daylight'' (Tupelo Press 2 ...

Sarah Gorham Sarah Gorham (born March 30, 1954) is an American poet, essayist, and publisher residing in Prospect, Kentucky. Background Gorham was educated at the Ecole D'Humanité, an international boarding school in Switzerland and received her MFA from ...

D. Nurkse Dennis Nurkse is a poet from Brooklyn. Life Nurkse is the son of the eminent Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He has taught workshops at Rikers Island, and his poems about prison life appeared in ''The American Poetry Review, Evergreen Review ...

, Gregory Pardlo,

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C. Dale Young C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) is an American poet and writer, physician, editor and educator of Asian and Latino descent. Life Young writes and publishes poetry and short stories, practices medicine full-time, and teaches in the Warren Wil ...

Noelle Kocot Noelle Kocot (born 1970) is an American poet. They are the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including' "Ascent of the Mothers" (forthcoming, Wave Books),'God's Green Earth'' (Wave Books, 2020)'', Phantom Pains of Madness'' (Wave B ...

Joel Brouwer Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is ''Off Message'' released in 2016 He is also the author of ''Exactly What Happened,'' which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Comm ...

, Cynthia Cruz, Pablo Medina, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Maya Pindyck, Cynthia Huntington,

Jason Schneiderman Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American poet. Life Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the ...

, and

Sarah Manguso Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (2008), was named an "Ed ...

. Authors have been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 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 Award Four Way Books authors have been interviewed on the PBS NewsHour, regional and national radio, and print media, including The New York Times.

Recognition

Four Way Books titles have been reviewed in '' The New Yorker,'' '' Publishers Weekly,'' ''

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,'' '' Booklist,'' and many other publications. The press has been profiled in ''The New York Times Arts Beat, '' and in '' Poets & Writers''. 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.” 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. 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
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References

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Sources

Four Way Books Website, Various Pages

External links

Four Way Books Website

Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Directory of Member Publishers

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