April 2012
48 posts
Rose McLarney's Writing Place for "The Orion Blog"
“I have to bend down to enter the door and I sit, straight-backed on a stool, under a pair of meat hooks. It’s a canning house, an outbuilding on my old farm, built into the hillside, out of uneven brick, lined with beadboard, and in shelves. The canning house is where food—rows of jars, hanging hams—was once stored, and I think I use it because I want to take putting by as my model....
"Verse Wisconsin" Reviews "Bad Daughter"
Four Way Books’ Sarah Gorham got a great review of her latest book Bad Daughter by Verse Wisconsin.
“The trailer for Sarah Gorham’s fourth book of poetry follows the cover artist, Michelle Tock York’s, Metamorphosis character, towing a wagonful of cat, dog, and rabbit as she traces a knotted clothesline that dangles phrases from the poem “When we were good we were…”. This...
Upcoming Reading in LA With Current and Future...
Here at Four Way Books we’re so thrilled to say that a current author of ours, Collier Nogues, and a future one, Louise Mathias (her book comes out in 2013!) will be reading for theRhampsodomancy: A Reading Series in Los Angeles on April 29th at 7:30pm at The Good Luck Bar. It’s for audience members who are 21 and up only since there will be a cash bar. Doors will open at 7pm and the...
"Vermont Public Radio" on Sydney Lea
Tom Slayton of Vermont Public Radio talked about Vermont poet laureate and Four Way Books poet Sydney Lea as a writer, a reader and a man.
“The best Vermont poetry speaks with a characteristic voice that is clear, crisp, and as invigorating as a sunny April morning. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes plain, it bridges many individual styles, but can be heard in poets as different as Robert...
"Smoky Mountain News" Article on Spring Author...
”Rose McLarney grew up in rural Western North Carolina, where she continues to live on an old mountain farm. Daughter to a somewhat legendary biologist who founded the international conservation organization ANAI, she is a female reflection (a generation or two removed) of Kentucky farmer/poet Wendell Berry.
Her work poems have the pith, the profundity, the probing of Berry’s, and yet...
"The Painted Word Poetry Series" Interviews Tina...
Tina Chang, author of Of Gods and Strangers, one of our Fall 2011 titles, was interviewed by The Painted Word Poetry Series.
“Tina Chang has it all going on, she is a mom, leader, poet, strong female role model, and Brooklyn’s 1st Female Poet Laureate. What I found to be most inspiring about my chat with Tina, was how much she is driven to make poetry something everyone can access, and...
Congratulations to 2012 Guggenheim Fellows Sarah...
Three Four Way Books authors have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation:
Sarah Manguso, General Non-Fiction
Pablo Medina, Poetry
C. Dale Young, Poetry
View the entire list of 2012 Fellows here.
Amazing Review of "In a Beautiful Country" in...
We are thrilled to share with you an excerpt from an amazing review of Kevin Prufer’s In a Beautiful Country that was published in FIELD Magazine’s most recent issue. Congratulations to you, Kevin!
“From the onset, an uncanny, almost subliminal tension is established between the anodyne references to “beautiful country” and falling in love and the dawning realization that “love”...
Brooklyn Poet Laureate and Four Way Author Tina...
Tina Chang, a Four Way Books poet and the Brooklyn poet laureate talks about life and death and how she represents both in a poem of hers for the Brooklyn Book Festival “OnePage”.
“In my poem, I contemplate both life and death. When my daughter was born, her grandmother passed away. In the same year, my children lost their grandfather. It was a confusing time but I imagined...
Picture of Daniel Tobin Reading for "Wake Up and...
For a closer look at this photo of Four Way Books author, Daniel Tobin and to learn more about the reading for “Wake Up and Smell the Poetry”, go to this link.
To see some of his books, visit his author page on our website.
Patrick Donnelly's Poem Published by "Mead...
Patrick Donnelly, the author of one of our Spring 2012 books, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, has his poem “Read the Signs” published in Mead Magazine.
Read the Signs
When I rinsed my spectacles under the tap and wiped them with my undershirt, When every night the striped spider rebuilt her web, triangulating with a car aerial that every morning pulled the work apart, When a...
Close Reading of Rigoberto Gonzalez' Poem in...
“The eerie thing about Rigoberto Gonzalez’s poem “Our Deportees” in the current March/April issue of The American Poetry Review is the names of particular immigrants are almost never invoked. There’s one brief stanza about a common burial that lists some in the most cursory manner. But that’s it. This is a poem that boldly refuses to use narrative in the...
Great Response to Tina Chang's Reading at The...
”The Fleming Museum hosted Tina Chang on March 28 as part of the monthly Painted Word Series led by professor Major Jackson.
Varied speakers presented her poetry to the audience.
In Tina Chang’s second book of poetry, “Of Gods and Strangers,” the taste of the discoveries made in Chang’s poems lingers with the audience.
The sounds and images in Chang’s collection are electric: we are...
Upcoming Debra Allbery and Rose McLarney Reading...
Two Four Way authors, Debra Allbery and Rose McLarney, will be reading together at Warren Wilson on April 11th.
“In celebration of the publication of her book of poems, “The Always Broken Plates of Mountains,” Rose McLarney and poet Debra Allbery will give a reading at Warren Wilson College on April 11 at 6:30 p.m. The reading in Canon Lounge is free of charge and refreshments will be...
Sarah Gorham on "BOMBBlog" Podcast
Four Way Books author, Sarah Gorham, read from her latest book, Bad Daughter, on “Phoned-in”, a podcast for Bomb Magazine. She also talks about Sarabande Books, the publishing company she began with her husband and more in an interview.
“Perhaps Sarah Gorham’s most important contribution is the literary press she created with her husband: Sarabande Books. Gorham writes that,...
"Mead Magazine" Reviews Patrick Donnelly's...
One of Four Way Books’ new books this spring, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin by Patrick Donnelly got a lovely short review in Mead Magazine. Congratulations, Patrick!
Read the review. Visit Four Way Books online for a copy of Donnelly’s book and to see what other new books we have this season.
Sydney Lea on Community Library Visits for...
The poet laureate of Vermont and Four Way Books author, Sydney Lea, talks about visiting community libraries and writing poetry in the Burlington Free Press.
“I’ve especially enjoyed that audience members at the libraries tend to ask not the allegedly sophisticated questions, which I’ve heard more than enough of in four decades of professorship; their questions are more basic — and thus...
YARN Talks With Debra Sparks About Writing
Four Way author, Debra Sparks talks to YARN, Young Adult Review Network, about writing.
“Is there a writer who doesn’t get stuck? The best advice I have is to write a lousy draft. Don’t even try to do a good job. In fact, make it your assignment to do a bad job. That way, you’ll get something down on paper. Then wait some time—well, if you have some time! Go back to the draft, and you’ll...
Spring Book Launches + Upcoming April Readings...
We’re excited to say that Four Way has a lot of great new books and author readings coming up to look out for! Be sure to attend these events if you’re in the area.
4/10 Patrick Donnelly with Eleanor Wilner at Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania
4/10 Patrick Ryan Frank at Brazos Bookstore, 7pm
4/12 Patrick Donnelly at Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library,...
Rose McLarney Published By The Collagist: Online...
Spring 2012 author, Rose McLarney has been published by The Collagist: Online Literature From Dzanc Books. Congratulations, Rose!
Survived this Loneliness
Honey Running through the forest with his hatchet, it’s sweetness he’s seeking. He’ll follow a bee all day, go straight through the brambles, stop each time it settles on a flower, until it leads him to the hive. I remember how persistent...
