FOUR WAY REVIEW

An Electronic Literary Journal

Category: Series

  • Three Poems by Craig Morgan Teicher

    Three Poems by Craig Morgan Teicher

    REGRET Beckoned by the things you’d go back for but can’t, you push on, dragging the past behind like a vestigial tail, out of use but undeniably a living part of you, the thing, really, by which you define yourself: lizardo, can-kicker, backward-glancer tripping over a ripple in the road…

  • Take Four:An Interview with Megan Staffel

    Take Four:An Interview with Megan Staffel

    In this installment of “Take Four,” we talk to contributor Megan Staffel about her short story “Saturdays at the Philharmonic” and her latest collection from Four Way Books.

  • Between the Lines:An Interview with Craig Morgan Teicher

    Between the Lines:An Interview with Craig Morgan Teicher

    To kick off our new interview series, “Between the Lines,” we talk to contributing editor Craig Morgan Teicher about the vagaries of artistic process and the thematic obsessions that ultimately guide its course.

  • Take Four:An Interview with C. Dale Young

    Take Four:An Interview with C. Dale Young

    In the second installment of our new interview series, “Take Four,” we talk to contributor C. Dale Young about his new work in short fiction, the subtle differences between poetry and prose, and the alchemy of characterization.

  • Take Four:An Interview with Paul Lisicky

    In the first installment of our new interview series, “Take Four,” we talk to contributor Paul Lisicky about his short story “Lent” and his latest collection from Four Way Books. In between issues, we’ll keep the conversation going as more contributors share their thoughts on recent work, current projects and the challenges of writing well.…

  • RADIO TRANSMISSIONS IN MORSE CODE (m+39) by P.J. Williams

    Origin: 30° 55′ 28.1634” N, 85° 44′ 19.9818” W I’m trying to say Hell is untied & empty / My stomach again a carcass in place                            of prayer / Each new fire is salt /

  • RADIO TRANSMISSIONS IN MORSE CODE (m+11) by P.J. Williams

    Origin: 34° 30′ 34.5522” N, 88° 45′ 20.214” W How many millions                            headswollen / sinking / so soon                            asleep / How loss is                            tongued / no / no / he’s gone /

  • RADIO TRANSMISSIONS IN MORSE CODE (m+3) by P.J. Williams

    Origin: 39° 25′ 1.992” N, 84° 55′ 40.0074” W Have found shelter in questions / at the cross of tongues / prophets hissing out another shallow                            monster / My own flattened mouth

  • INTRODUCTION TO RADIO TRANSMISSIONS IN MORSE CODE by P.J. Williams

    “These poems are from a larger project called Zero Sum, and they come from a section of the manuscript in which the speaker survives a cataclysmic event. Over the days and weeks following, he overhears on his radio these Morse code transmissions in between the interference and static. He translates them as best he can…

  • MAP (7) by Ye Chun

    7. Olympia, Washington The Pacific Ocean shovels coals in the distance. My drunk friends drop pebbles at me as I lie on the couch losing water. Be happy, be happy, be happy. I’m trying to see spring sprout, mountain that smells like green apple,

  • MAP (5) by Ye Chun

    5. Lhasa Seeds tier in a pomegranate. Sweat beads convex-mirror corners of a night. You pick up a piece of coal from roadside, wrap it in a blue and green checked handkerchief

  • MAP (4) by Ye Chun

    4. Shenzhen Streetlamps imitate stars. Stains on a hotel ceiling imitate mountains, boats and ruins. …either do great good or great evil, the journalist, 23, says. We walk