Four Way Books is delighted to announce that Tina Chang has been appointed Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. (Tina is the second Four Way Books author to be Brooklyn's Poet Laureate. D. Nurkse held the position for several years.) Tina is the author of Half Lit Houses and the forthcoming Of Gods & Strangers (2011). She lives in, well, Brooklyn! Congratulations Tina!
BEHIND THE LIST (from Poetry Foundation website)
Four Way Books, a non-profit press based in New York City, has three debuts on the contemporary best seller list this week: Sediment by Sandy Tseng (number 22), Home by Now by Meg Kearney (number 8), and What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy (number 30). The perenial for-profit powerhouse Knopf also has three titles on the list, an impressive feat dwarfed by Beacon Press, which has six titles on the list. All six are by Mary Oliver.
Between Heaven and Texas, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye, makes its debut on the anthology list this week at number 8. Nye has collected poems from a range of Texas poets to accompany the photographs of Wyman Meinzer, who has made a name for himself framing the Texas sky.
Congratulations to Daniel Tobin who has been awarded a 2009 Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Congratulations to Eileen Pollack, author of IN THE MOUTH stories and novellas (2008) and the winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award Past winners of the award include Chaim Potok, Cynthia Ozick, Curt Leviant, Allegra Goodman, Myla Goldberg, Thane Rosenbaum, and Jonathan Rosen.
We are proud to announce that Kevin Prufer's National Anthem was selected as one of five 2008 Best Books in Poetry by Publishers Weekly.
Events
Four Way Books / Spring 2010
Readings on the Bowery, sponsored by Four Way Books
Sundays at 2:00pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
New York, NY 10012-2802
(212) 614-0505
www.hopstop.com for directions
$5.00 admission
January 24
Michael Dumanis
Monica Ferrell
Jay Baron Nicorvo
James Allen Hall
February 28
Fred Marchant
Joan Houlihan
Dana Roeser
Elizabeth Haukaas
March 28
Tom Healy
Carol Muske-Dukes
Ryan Murphy
Megan Staffel
April 18
Jamie Ross
david dodd lee
susan wheeler
lynn emanuel
May 2
Sara London
Ken Chen
Meg Kearney
Monica Youn
