2014 at a glance: Dana Jennings wrote a profile of Four Way Books for The New York Times. Brian Komei Dempsters TOPAZ won the 2014 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Rigoberto Gonzalezs UNPEOPLED EDEN won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. Yona Harveys HEMMING THE WATER received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, was a finalist for the 2014 Ohioana Book Award, and was a nominee for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. George Kalamaras, the author of THE THEORY AND FUNCTION OF MANGOES, became the Poet Laureate of Indiana in January 2014. Kamilah Aisha Moons SHE HAS A NAME 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 Redels MAKE ME DO THINGS was awarded the 2014 Devils Kitchen Reading Award in Prose, and Victoria Redel was awarded a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. Rob Schlegels JANUARY MACHINE was the winner of the 2014 Grub Street Poetry Prize, selected by Stephen Burt. Gregory Pardlos DIGEST has been nominated for the 46th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. DIGEST is on the Standout Books of 2014 list by the Academy of American Poets. Gregory Pardlos DIGEST and Kevin Prufers CHURCHES both made David Orrs 10 Favorite Poetry Books of 2014 List in The New York Times. Allison Benis Whites SMALL PORCELAIN HEAD was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry in 2014. All Four Way Books titles are available from fourwaybooks. fourwaybooks/site/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:11:00 +0000