Four Way Books & Friends:

Holiday Party Anthologies

Please enjoy these audiobook anthologies of poems and prose read by members of the Four Way Books community, recorded beautifully at Reed Turchi’s Second Take Sound, an artist-owned studio in New York City. Below you will find the 2025 and 2024 editions. 

2025 Edition

Recorded on December 14, 2025.

Table of Contents

  1. Soren Stockman — “To Be Born” from Elephant (0:00-1:40)
  2. Abigail Wender— “What She Offered” (1:41-2:14)
  3. Hannah Matheson — “Note to Self Re: a Relapse” (2:15-4:46)
  4. Gregory Crosby — “The Naming of Evil” (4:48-6:23)
  5. Karen Hildebrand — “The Year of No Men” (6:25-7:58)
  6. Abigail Welhouse — “Dogs Are Good for You” (7:59-9:05)
  7. John Del Peschio — “Soliloquy for My Father” (9:07-10:24)
  8. Victor Basta — “After the Incident” (10:26-12:10)
  9. Barbara Hoffert — “Pandemic Hawk” (12:12-13:36)
  10. Austin Alexis — “Lizard” (13:37-15:33)
  11. Megan Pinto — “Across an Open Field” from Saints of Little Faith (15:35-17:31)
  12. Susan Buttenwieser — Excerpt of “Someone’s Drunk Wife” from We Were Lucky with the Rain (17:33-19:10)
  13. Donna Masini — “Diorama” (19:13-20:58)
  14. Jamie L. Smith — “Stingray” (20:59-21:35)
  15. Rob Arnold — “Cento” (21:36-22:14)
  16. Abi Pollokoff — Excerpt of “Our Vivacious Dark” (22:16-25:35)

2024 Edition

Recorded on December 7, 2024. 

Table of Contents

  1. Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. — excerpt of After the Operation (00:00-1:01)
  2. Karen Hildebrand — “Pecan Crescents” (1:01-2:02)
  3. Victor Basta — “You Have a DNA Match” (2:02-4:20)
  4. Donna Masini — “The Lights Go Down at the Angelika” from 4:30 Movie (4:22-6:06)
  5. Susan Buttenwieser — excerpt of “The Last Supper” from We Were Lucky with the Rain (6:08-7:43)
  6. Michael Morse — “The Rush” (7:44-9:37)
  7. Barbara Hoffert — “My Medea” (9:39-11:45)
  8. Howard Levy — “Tranströmer” (11:46-12:24)
  9. Owen Lewis — “Remembering the Doves of Ma’agan” from Prayer of Six Wings (12:26-13:54)
  10. Yerra Sugarman — “The Bubble Wand” (13:57-16:03)
  11. Jonathan Wells — “The Feeling Is Mutual” (16:05-16:58)
  12. Abigail Welhouse — “We Love the Neighbors” (16:59-17:47)
  13. Robin Rosen Chang — “Dead Horse Point” (17:48-20:48)
  14. Isabella DeSendi — “Summer, Again” from Someone Else’s Hunger (20:50-24:44)
  15. Rob Arnold — “What We Did Under the Tree” (24:46-26:48)
  16. Abi Pollokoff — “these our vicious altars:” (26:52-29:41)
  17. Lily Greenberg — “Belief” (29:45-33:05)
  18. Kate Welsh — “Want” (33:08-35:07)
  19. Jennifer Franklin — “Creon Creates His Own Truth” from If Some God Shakes Your House (35:09-36:18)
  20. Carlie Hoffman — “Panorama After Foreclosure” from One More World Like This World (36:20-37:05)
  21. Lisa Hiton — “The Border” (37:08-37:54)
  22. Gauri Awasthi — “Another Failed Elegy” (37:55-39:20)
  23. Ricardo Alberto Maldonado — “How a Heart They Clean” (39:23-41:08)
  24. Aditi Bhattacharjee — “Legacy Ghazal” (41:10-42:18)
  25. Sasha Burshteyn — “Western Union” (42:21-44:56)
  26. Rowyda Amin — “Furthest West” (45:00-46:10)
  27. Megan Pinto — “Snowscapes” from Saints of Little Faith (46:12-48:04)
  28. Margaret Diehl — “Artificial Intelligence”(48:06-49:30)
  29. Megan Staffel — excerpt of The Causative Factor (49:33-52:57)
  30. Mary Lou Buschi — “I Want” from Blue Physics (53:00-54:28)
  31. Stephanie Strickland — “Who” from True North (54:30-56:01)
  32. Rodney Terich Leonard — “Poem for Lifetime Eaters of Pig, Pintos & Cornbread” from Another Land of My Body (56:04-57:29)
  33. Maja Lukic — “Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You” (57:32-59:09)