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FOUR WAY REVIEW

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.

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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Vievee Francis in LA Review of Books

Sunday, 18 February 2018 by Four Way Review

Contributing Editor Vievee Francis talks with the Los Angeles Review of Books.

“IN FOREST PRIMEVAL, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Vievee Francis summons a wilderness — equal parts the wilderness of America and the wilderness of the interior — that takes us off center. I know and love that particular North Carolina wild that Vievee has described, having lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains myself for a stint, too. Vievee and I have both since left those mountains, and during our conversation, which took place during her weeklong residency at Claremont Graduate University, we laughed about living in a place where there might be snakes on the porch or stinkbugs nestled in the curtains. That is, a place where that wild thing in the world and in the self feels nakedly present and abundant; one has to face it. And it is so, in this book: a segue from Vievee’s vivid persona poems, those extraordinary masks, into an articulation of her own personhood — a speaking of the black female body, this marvelous, terrified, joyful assertion of her name in a broken country that would otherwise un-speak it.”

Read at LARB.

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PUSHCART NOMINEES

Thursday, 01 December 2016 by Four Way Review

We’re proud to announce our 2017 Pushcart Prize nominees!

From Issue 9

This is why I Need a Goddess by Angela Penaredondo
Lambing by George Kalamaras
Mare Frigoris by Rachel Brownson


From Issue 10

Reprieve by Jenny George
Argument for Loving from a Distance by Katie Condon
Drinking Game by Marlin M. Jenkins


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