Join us for a Zoom reading featuring authors from independent press Four Way Books. Readers include Charlie Clark (The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin), Brian Komei Dempster (Seize), and Susan Buttenwieser (We Were Lucky with the Rain).

Charlie Clark’s poetry has appeared in New England Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, and other journals. The Newest Employee of the Museum of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2020) is his debut collection. He studied poetry at the University of Maryland. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was a 2019 NEA fellow in poetry. He lives in Austin, TX.

Brian Komei Dempster’s most recent book of poetry is Seize (Four Way Books 2020). His debut book of poetry, Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013), received the 15 Bytes 2014 Book Award in Poetry. His poems have been published widely in journals such as New England Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly, along with various anthologies, including Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (Norton, 2008) and Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois, 2004). He is a professor of rhetoric and language at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as Director of Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies program.

Susan Buttenwieser’s writing has appeared in numerous publications. We Were Lucky with the Rain (Four Way Books 2020) is her first book. She teaches creative writing in New York City public schools and to incarcerated women.

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