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Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors. The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes, who is the author of five poetry collections. Four Way Books titles are distributed by University of Chicago Press. The press has received grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses through their re-grant program. Authors Representative authors published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Kevin Prufer, Terri Ford, Forrest Hamer, Pimone Triplett, Yona Harvey, Jeffrey Harrison, Sarah Gorham, D. Nurkse, Gregory Pardlo, Laurel Blossom, C. Dale You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Dzvinia Orlowsky (born in Cambridge, Ohio) is a Ukrainian American poet, translator, editor, and teacher. She received her Bachelor of Arts, BA from Oberlin College and her Master of Fine Arts, MFA from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She is author of six poetry collections including ''Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones'' (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009) for which she received a Sheila Motton Book Award, and ''Silvertone ''(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013) for which she was named Ohio Poetry Day Association's 2014 Co-Poet of the Year. Her first collection, ''A Handful of Bees'', was reprinted in 2009 as a Carnegie Mellon University Classic Contemporary. Her sixth, ''Bad Harvest'', was published in fall of 2018 and was named a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her co-translations with Ali Kinsella from the Ukrainian of selected poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets, "Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow" was published by Lost Horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo (born November 24, 1968) is an American poet, writer, and professor. His book ''Digest'' won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Callaloo'', '' Poet Lore'', ''Harvard Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and on National Public Radio. His work has been praised for its “language simultaneously urban and highbrow… snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” Life and work Pardlo's first volume of poems, ''Totem'', was chosen by Brenda Hillman as the winner of the 2007 ''American Poetry Review'' / Honickman First Book Prize, distributed by Copper Canyon Press. The manuscript for ''Totem'' was also a semifinalist for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and a finalist for the inaugural ''Essence'' Magazine Literary Award in Poetry. Pardlo is the translator of the full-length poetry collection ''Pencil of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Fellowships
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation issues awards in each of two separate competitions: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to "advanced professionals in mid-career" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money as they see fit, as the purpose is to give fellows "b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome Prize
The Rome Prize is awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in Rome, Italy. Approximately thirty scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a study fellowship at the academy. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1921, with a hiatus during the World War II years, from 1942 to 1949. Recipients Fellows and residents, listed by year of residency: See also * List of European art awards This list of European art awards covers some of the main art awards given by organizations in Europe. Some are restricted to artists in a particular genre or from a given country or region, while others are broader in scope. The list is organized ... * List of history awards References American awards Architecture awards American music awards History awards Education in Rome Culture in Rome Awards established in 1896 {{Lit-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize For Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. 1918 and 1919 special prizes Before the establishment of the award, the 1918 and 1919 Pulitzer cycles included three Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards (called at the time the Columbia University Poetry Prize) for poetry books funded by "a special grant from The Poetry Society." See Special Pulitzers for Letters. * 1918: ''Love Songs'' by Sara Teasdale * 1919: ''Cornhuskers'' by Carl Sandburg * 1919: ''The Old Road to Paradise'' by Margaret Widdemer Winners In its first 92 years to 2013, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded 92 times. Two were given in 2008, none in 1946. Robert Frost won the prize fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (2008), was named an "Editors’ Choice" title by the ''New York Times Sunday Book Review'' and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' Her book '' Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'' (2015) was also named a ''New York Times'' "Editors’ Choice." Her debut novel, ''Very Cold People'', was published by Penguin in 2022. Life She was born and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. Manguso received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at The New School. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University and New England College. Her poems and prose have appeared in '' Harper's'', th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Schneiderman
Jason Schneiderman (born 1976) is an American poet. Life Jason Schneiderman has BA degrees in English and Russian from the University of Maryland, an MFA in poetry from NYU, and a Ph.D. in English Literature with a focus on Queer Theory from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College., and has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a featured faculty member at the 201Conference on Poetryat The Frost Place. He lives in Brooklyn. '' He is one of the hosts of Painted Bride Quarterly Slush Pile, a podcast that puts an editorial meeting on the air. He is one of the hosts of Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar, a longstanding reading series in New York City. Schneiderman's essays on teaching formal poetry have appeared in Teachers and Writers. His essays on poetry have frequently appeared in American Poetry Review. The anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers was the first Freshman composition reader foc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Huntington
Cynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. Life and career Huntington has published numerous books of poetry, including ''Heavenly Bodies'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Award. She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including ''TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI,'' ''Ploughshares,'' and ''Massachusetts Review,'' and in anthologies including ''The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present'' (Sribner, 2008) and ''Contemporary Poetry of New England'' (Middlebury College Press, 2002). She was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Awards and honors *2004 Poet Laureate of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Pindyck
Maya Pindyck (born 1978) is an American poet, scholar, and visual artist. She is director of writing and a professor at Moore College of Art and Design. Biography Pindyck grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, United States and Tel Aviv, Israel, attending K-12 schools in both Boston and Tel Aviv. She is Jewish, and was raised secular. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in fine arts and philosophy from Connecticut College. She has an Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English education from Columbia University's Teacher's College. Her chapbook ''Locket, Master'' earned her a fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. She has shared that creating visual art is what first led her into poetry. She is a director of writing and a professor of liberal arts at Moore College of Art and Design. Her favorite writers include Sherman Alexie, Anne Carson, and Lucille Clifton. Recognition Pindyck has received several grants, including a National End ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo (born August 21, 1976) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist. Life Nicorvo was born in Perth Amboy, NJ and was raised in Sarasota, FL. He's married to the writer Thisbe Nissen and they live on an old farm outside Battle Creek, MI. Career Nicorvo's writing has appeared in ''Poets & Writers'', ''The Baffler'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Salon (website).'' His poetry has been featured on PBS NewsHour. Nicorvo's first novel, ''The Standard Grand,'' was published in 2017 by St. Martin’s Press. It is about a group of veterans, traumatized by their wartime experiences, who meet in a crumbling resort in the Catskill Mountains. Books *''Deadbeat'': Poems. ''Four Way Books'' (2012) . ''Deadbeat'' debuted on the Poetry Foundation bestseller list. *''The Standard Grand'': A Novel. ''St. Martin's Press'' (2017) .''The Standard Grand'' was picked for IndieBound's Indie Next List, Library Journal's Debut Novels Great First Acts, Poets & Writers's "New and Noteworthy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Medina
Pablo Medina is a Cuban American poet and novelist, Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and Director of its MFA Program. Biography Medina was born in Havana, Cuba and emigrated to New York City in 1960. He received an M.A. degree from Georgetown University. ''Pork Rind and Cuban Songs'' (1975), Medina’s first collection of poems, was the first publication by a Cuban author written directly from the English language. His memoir, ''Exiled Memories'' (1990), was the first of several autobiographical accounts to be published from the generation of Cubans who emigrated to the United States after the Cuban Revolution. Medina chronicles early memories from his childhood in Cuba as well as his arrival in New York City; the memoir is a personal reflection on his own self-identity, irreconcilably divided between Cuban and American culture. Among his recent publications are a collection of translated poems by Virgilio Piñera, ''The Wei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of six published poetry collections, and two works of cultural criticism. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. Her seventh collection of poems, Hotel Oblivion, is forthcoming in 2022. Life Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Cruz grew up in Germany and in northern California. She earned her B.A. at Mills College. She earned her M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Art Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts and an MA in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Cruz is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. Her research centers on Hegel. She currently lives in Brooklyn and in Berlin. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. Work Her first collection of poems, ''Ruin,'' was published by Alice James Books in 2006, and reviewed by ''The New York Times Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
