Four Way Books

Congratulations to Allison Benis White for winning the LA Times Book Award for Poetry! For a limited time through June 30th, you can purchase any of her books—or bundle them all!—on our website at a discounted price: https://fourwaybooks.com/site/allison-benis-white-bundle/

Some recent press for Four Way Books!

Hooray and congratulations to Allison Benis White. "A Magnificent Loneliness" is the 2026 winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards in Poetry. https://fourwaybooks.com/site/a-magnificent-loneliness/

Congratulations to Allison Benis White!
"A Magnificent Loneliness"
Winner of the 2026 LA Times Book Awards in Couplet—A Quarterly

A Magnificent Loneliness – Four Way Books “I remember // once, turning to leave, a black purse over her shoulder. . .” Oneiric and surreal as always, Allison Benis White attempts to mediate, if not make sense of, inconceivable bereavement in her fifth collection of poetry. “A black purse, / over her living shoulder, Love said nothing ...

Read Ilana Masad's review in Alta of Four Way Books author Sarah Stone's Marriage to the Sea at the link below!

Lives We Perform Sarah Stone’s linked novellas in Marriage to the Sea follow a theatrical family through grief, love, and the complications of self.

Big congratulations to Four Way Books author Isabella DeSendi, who was named a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award!

Award Winners The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.

New Yorkers and tri-state locals, join us on Tuesday, March 31st for back-to-back readings at Book Culture! We can't wait to celebrate gorgeous new titles from Daniel Tobin, Monica Ferrell, and Maggie Dietz ✨

This event is free and open to all, but check out all the details and find the registration link here: https://www.bookculture.com/event/112th-four-way-books-spring-2026-reading

"Eve Grubin’s Boat of Letters is an ongoing conversation with silence. From the quotidian to the theological, the poems feel like prayers, quiet interrogations in an unknowable world. Paul Celan comes to mind, as do Robert Lax, Emily Dickinson and St John of the Cross – though Grubin’s voice never resembles theirs."

Read Christian Wethered's review of Four Way Books author Eve Grubin's Boat of Letters in Poetry Nation Review below!

PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - At the Brink of Something - PN Review 288

"I see the book as an exploration of the relationship between our bodies and the locations we live in and come from. And of course every place we could ever step is a wild palimpsest of histories—there’s loss and violence, there’s growth and love, there’s migration, there are sedimented layers of history in any place we find ourselves."

Read Brandon Blue's interview with Four Way Books author Aaron Coleman for Poetry Northwest below!

Interview// “A Wild Palimpsest of Histories”: A Conversation with Aaron Coleman | Poetry Northwest "I wonder what our bodies do with time, and I see this collection as a living archive exploring that question, both asking and responding to it."—Aaron Coleman

Edward Hirsch, Carlie Hoffman, and Yerra Sugarman will present a lecture on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924–1942), a poet, translator, and librettist from Czernowitz (present-day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger from Song of the Yellow Asters (World Poetry Books, 2026), translated by Carlie Hoffman, will be read, and copies of the book will be available for purchase.

More information at the link below!

Passwords: Edward Hirsch, Carlie Hoffman, and Yerra Sugarman on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinge Mar 26: Edward Hirsch, Carlie Hoffman, and Yerra Sugarman give a lecture on Selma Meerbaum-Eisinge (1924–1942), a poet, translator, and librettist.