Join us for a reading with four authors from independent press Four Way Books: Angela Narciso Torres (What Happens Is Neither); Reginald Gibbons (Renditions); Kevin Prufer (The Art of Fiction); and Rodney Terich Leonard (Sweetgum & Lightning).

This event will take place via Zoom; details to come.

Angela Narciso Torres is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, 2013), To the Bone (Sundress Publications, 2020), and What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books, 2021). Recent work appears in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Quarterly West. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She won the 2019 Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York) and was named one of NewCityLit’s Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago in 2016. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry. She lives in Southern California.

Reginald Gibbons has published eleven books of poems. He was born and raised in Houston; for decades has taught creative writing at Northwestern University and the Warren Wilson MFA. He has won four prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters—for novel, short story, poetry book, and book of translations.

Kevin Prufer is the author of eight books of poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies, the most recent of which are The Art of Fiction, How He Loved Them, and, Churches, all from Four Way Books. He’s also co-editor of New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008), Literary Publishing in the 21st Century (Milkweed Editions, 2016), and Into English: Poems, Translations, Commentaries (Graywolf Press). Prufer is Editor-at-Large of Pleiades: Literature in Context, Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series, and Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and the low-residency MFA at Lesley University. Among Prufer’s awards and honors are four Pushcart prizes and multiple Best American Poetry selections, numerous awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Prairie Schooner/Strousse Award, two William Rockhill Nelson awards, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. His most recent book was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for best poetry book from the American literary press.

Rodney Terich Leonard was born in Nixburg, Alabama. An Air Force veteran who served during the Gulf War, his society profiles and poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Red River Review, The Huffington Post, BOMB Magazine, The Cortland Review, Indolent Books-What Rough Beast, Four Way Review, the New York Times, The Amsterdam News, The Village Voice, For Colored Boys… (anthology edited by Keith Boykin), and other publications. Sweetgum & Lightning is his debut collection of poetry. He holds degrees from The New School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Teachers College Columbia University. A Callaloo poetry fellow, he received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and currently lives in Manhattan.

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