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Four Way Review is an electronic literary journal from non-profit, independent literary publisher Four Way Books. We publish poetry and fiction from both established and emerging authors through our open submissions process.

SEPTEMBER MONTHLY: Interview with Jessica E. Johnson

Tuesday, 17 September 2024 by Four Way Review

We’re excited to share a new series of interviews exploring craft. In these conversations, we’ve asked writers to take us behind the scenes of their finished works, showing us the process behind the poem, the scene, and the story. 

First is our conversation with Jessica E. Johnson, on her memoir Mettlework: A Mining Daughter on Making Home. This memoir explores her unusual childhood during the 1970s and ’80s, when she grew up in mountain west mining camps and ghost towns, in places without running water or companions. These recollections are interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recession Portland, Oregon. In Mettlework, Johnson digs through her mother’s keepsakes, the histories of places her family passed through, the language of geology and a mother manual from the early twentieth century to uncover and examine the misogyny and disconnection that characterized her childhood world– a world linked to the present.  

Considering the focus of these conversations is on process, we’d be remiss to overlook our own process in conducting the interview! We’d like to give special recognition and thanks to our 2024 summer intern, Kirby Wilson, who helped shepherd these conversations from initial readings to their final form. Kirby was instrumental in crafting the conversations you now see before you. 

Enjoy!

 


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JUNE MONTHLY: In Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 by Four Way Review

Nearly a year after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack and Israel’s subsequent escalation of a decades-long project of state-sponsored genocide of the Palestinian people, Gaza continues to face deadly bombings and attacks from Israel. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the death toll of Palestinians is in the tens of thousands, with no sign of Israel relenting.

In response to the death and destruction in Palestine, Barricade and Four Way Review joined together to raise the voices of Palestinian poets and others from around the world standing in solidarity with them. While we stand fervently against Anti-Semitism, we also resist its false equation to anti-Zionism; we equally condemn Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism and xenophobia, and imperialism, all of which function together to murder and oppress the poor and working classes and to legitimize expropriation and forced displacement.

The poems you will read here have been previously published in Barricade and represent a desire to use our platforms to uplift and disseminate translations from and in solidarity with Palestinians. Barricade shares contributions on its forum Ramparts, a makeshift oppositional online space founded on the basis of urgency and necessity; Four Way Review has compiled a selection of Ramparts posts here, with the aim of expanding the reach of these writings and giving them a more permanent home.

Four Poems, Olivia Elias (trans. Jérémy Victor Robert)

SLUMROYAL, Yahya Hassan (trans. Jordan Barger)

Urgent: News of the Death of Hiba Abu Nada, João Melo (trans. G. Holleran)

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ISSUE 19

Sunday, 15 November 2020 by Four Way Review

   POETRY

COMMENCEMENT SPEECH, DELIVERED TO A HERD OF WALRUS CALVES by Matthew Olzmann

TWO POEMS by Melissa Crowe

TWO POEMS by Ariel Francisco

BALIKBAYAN FILLED WITH THEORY by Dujie Tahat

TWO POEMS by Keetje Kuipers

IF YOU ARE READING THIS by James Hoch

SIX ECCLESIASTICAL LOVE SONGS by C.T. Salazar

A POEM WHERE GOD IS A PARABLE by Jay Kophy

VENUS DE MILO WITH DRAWERS: SELF-PORTRAIT MADE OF MINK & PLASTER by Caroline Parkman Barr

MEMORIAL DAY by Chelsea Dingman

I USED TO PRAY by Yuxi Lin

TWO POEMS by Jessica Johnson

 

    FICTION

EXCERPT FROM THE HISTORY OF LITERACY by K-Ming Chang

MONSIEUR REYNARD by Holly M. Wendt

ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS SWIM by Jon Bohr Heinen


      ART

FOUR WORKS by Suzanne Koett

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Best of the Net Nominations 2020

Thursday, 08 October 2020 by Four Way Review

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STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT!

Friday, 20 December 2019 by Four Way Review

As we approach the end of the year, we want to thank our writers for entrusting their work with us and our readers for helping us celebrate and recognize so many wonderful voices. In addition, 2019 has brought new changes to Four Way Review. David Lerner Schwartz will be serving as the new Fiction Editor for Four Way Review. Currently the writer-in-residence at St. Albans, his work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, New York magazine, and produced by Red Bull Theater. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. We would like to thank Hananah Zaheer and K. K. Fox for the many years they have given our community and their work in celebrating fiction. Read our new fiction standards here and submit!

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TENNESSEE QUARTO

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 by Four Way Review

Our staff is located around the world and we pride ourselves on publishing writers representing a variety of voices and hometowns. However, as of September, three of our staff members now live in Tennessee.  We saw an opportunity for a Quarto to focus on writers from the Volunteer State. Enjoy!

“MY DADDIES HAVE VOICES LIKE BACHELORS, LIKE CASTIGATORS & CROONERS…” by Tiana Clark

TWO POEMS by Kendra DeColo

BLINDKEY POINT by Norris Eppes

 

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2018 PUSHCART NOMINATIONS

Thursday, 29 November 2018 by Four Way Review
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Best of the Net 2018 Nominations

Tuesday, 25 September 2018 by Four Way Review

 

POETRY:

“FMK” by Amorak Huey (issue 12)

“Me Too” by Alyssa Beckitt (issue 13)

“Beauty” by Kyle Dargan (issue 12)

“As Fog Rolls In, Night Finds Its Footing” by Luther Hughes (issue 13)

“Things That Fold” by Karisma Price (issue 13)

“Resolution to Recover Lost Things” by Ellen C. Bush (issue 12)

 

FICTION:

“Francie and Samantha” by Janice Obuchowski (issue 12)

“Collapsed” by Michael Holladay (issue 13)

 

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Sunday, 27 May 2018 by Four Way Review

LATE WINTER

In a handful of 

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Kerrin McCadden

Thursday, 19 April 2018 by Four Way Review

HOMING

The sky is at the feeder again.
I mean the indigo bunting
with no bearings for home.
A man pulls into the driveway

after work—crunching stones,
hallooing up the stairs—
wanting to know about my day.
All the days are wranglers,

I say. I am not able to cite
my sources, but I make a list.
A woman at lunch said we do not
plan to live two hundred years
,

and so I think to tell him
—well, I do not plan to live
two hundred years!
In my hands,
pillowcases I bought, embroidery

floss. Everywhere I go I think
about what is impossible.
Can homing pigeons carry
their nth letter and still get lost?

My job is to build a home,
I tell this man I have already built
a home with. My job is to do
something with my hands.

 

LATE WINTER

In a handful of seasons,
water and cold dirt

In a handful of seasons,
water and cold dirt

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Issue 13

Thursday, 22 March 2018 by Four Way Review

 

POETRY
TWO POEMS by Kerrin McCadden
AMERICAN LOVE SONG: OMAHA NEBRASKA by Brionne Janae

 

LAUGHTER IS CLOSE by David Rivard

THREE POEMS by Alyssa Beckitt

THREE POEMS by Jessica Hincapie

THINGS THAT FOLD by Karisma Price

SUMMONS by Jess Smith

TO MY CHILD BEFORE SHE ARRIVES by Brian Simoneau

LAMENT FOR SOME OTHER SAIGON by Sarah Audsley

AS THE FOG ROLLS IN, NIGHT FINDS ITS FOOTING by Luther Hughes

 

FICTION

 

 

 

ARTWORK

 

 

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QUARTO: Tribute to Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan

Thursday, 08 March 2018 by Four Way Review

 

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Saturday Morning: Remembering Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan by Addrienne Su

“This is How I Remember Her” by Blas Falconer

CASTRATO

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