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Spring 2020

Dear Friends,

Usually, at this time of year, I am excited to send an invitation to you for the annual Four Way Books Benefit. But this being the year of years, we have, of course, decided not to hold an in-person benefit in May. So, at the time of this writing, when we’d otherwise be printing up invitations and addressing, stuffing and stamping envelopes, we feel that we need to be cautious and make an early call to delay our in-person benefit until later in the year, or to forego it until 2021. I ask that you support us at this time, nonetheless. An online benefit we will have. Will you contribute to the cause and join us?

Date: May 14, 2020

Place: The comfort of your home via Zoom, invitation to participate will come from us via email. You will have access to the Zoom meeting via mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer.

Time: 6:30 PM EDT
Featuring: Poets Tommye Blount of Novi, MI, Allison Benis White of Irvine, CA, John Murillo of Brooklyn, NY, and Q&A hosted by Matthew Olzmann. There will be short readings and a Q&A with poems visible on your screen so that you can read along.

How: By joining our Build a Book Program, you can “purchase” a page of text at $150.00, and/or a book spine at $250.00, and/or a book cover at $500.00, and/or a whole book at $1000.00. And, to make the pot sweeter, your name will appear in the back matter of all of our 2021 books as well as on our website as a supporter of our Build a Book Program. That’s not all! All participants in this program will receive an invitation to bid on some great items like A Taste of NYC, tickets to the 2020 US Open Tennis Championships (or later…), and other goodies.

We enjoyed a stellar start to 2020 with Rigoberto González winning the prestigious PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and Maya Phillips’ debut collection, Erou, named as a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. Aaron Coleman’s Threat Come Close won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry and will tour a dozen-plus colleges giving readings. Reviews in the New York Times, Booklist (starred), and Publishers Weekly (starred) have brought attention to our authors and Andrea Cohen’s Nightshade was named one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 in the New York Times. Such recognition puts smiles on our and authors’ faces. But our achievements are only possible because of the support of individual donors like you.

The success of the Annual Four Way Books Benefit is crucial to us. Remember, any amount that you can send our way, is appreciated. We will put it to good use, producing 15-18 critically acclaimed works of poetry and short fiction a year by emerging and established writers from across the country. Please help us make this year’s benefit a much-needed success for Four Way Books.

Warmly and appreciatively,

Martha Rhodes, Director

P.S. Please consider coming forward this year – and if you already have made a 2020 donation, thank you! We need your support as bookstores shutter and can’t order books, and Amazon stops ordering books as well.

We need your support so that we can continue to support our past, current, and forthcoming titles. We don’t want COVID-19 to bring us down. We are working very hard to continue our good work.

Click here to donate online Donate or mail a check to us at Four Way Books POB 535 Village Station New York, NY 10013

Four Way Books is a 501(c)(3) organization. All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by the law.