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Taking a moment to appreciate A MAGNIFICENT LONELINESS in the New York Times earlier this month✨ Thank you to Elisa Gabbert for sharing her insights on "the new ekphrasis" and spotlighting the wonderful Allison Benis White!

"To look hard enough is to be seen, which is both comforting and startling."

Read the whole article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/books/review/on-poetry-art-ekphrasis.html

What's the best thing about summer? Poetry at the Bryant Park Reading Room!!!

Come out next week to hear an incredible line-up of Four Way Books authors — Isabella DeSendi, Laura Cresté, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado — hosted by Hannah Matheson. We can't wait to see you there! ✨

Tuesday, June 16th at 6pm
Under the yellow umbrellas between 42nd St. and the lawn :)

https://bryantpark.org/calendar/event/poetry/2026-06-16

We're reading until the end of June — send us your work!

Submissions are open to all poets writing in English for a book-length collection.

The Ellen Bryant Voigt Series in Poetry honors the legacy of a great American poet. From Four Way Books’ inception in 1993 until her death in 2025, Ellen Bryant Voigt was both inspiration and advisor to the press. In celebration of her work and her keen stewardship of the art of poetry, we seek collections that record the pulse of human experience in a complicated world, in which formal ingenuity underpins intellectual and emotional resonance.

Find guidelines and more information here: https://fourwaybooks.com/site/ebv-submit/

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June 1 – June 30, 2026
The Four Way Books Ellen Bryant Voigt Series in Poetry

(Formerly the annual June Open Reading Period)

The Ellen Bryant Voigt Series in Poetry honors the legacy of a great American poet. From Four Way Books’ inception in 1993 until her death in 2025, Ellen Bryant Voigt was both inspiration and advisor to the press. In celebration of her work and her keen stewardship of the art of poetry, we seek collections that record the pulse of human experience in a complicated world, in which formal ingenuity underpins intellectual and emotional resonance.

Open to all poets writing in English, for a book-length collection. Submissions are welcome from June 1 – 30. Honorarium: $1000.00

Series Editor: Sally Ball

$30.00 processing fee. Online submissions only. We will respond by mid-November.

www.fourwaybooks.com for guidelines

Congratulations to Allison Benis White for winning the LA Times Book Award for Poetry! For a limited time through June 30th, you can purchase any of her books—or bundle them all!—on our website at a discounted price: https://fourwaybooks.com/site/allison-benis-white-bundle/

Some recent press for Four Way Books!

Hooray and congratulations to Allison Benis White. "A Magnificent Loneliness" is the 2026 winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards in Poetry. https://fourwaybooks.com/site/a-magnificent-loneliness/

Congratulations to Allison Benis White!
"A Magnificent Loneliness"
Winner of the 2026 LA Times Book Awards in Couplet—A Quarterly

A Magnificent Loneliness – Four Way Books “I remember // once, turning to leave, a black purse over her shoulder. . .” Oneiric and surreal as always, Allison Benis White attempts to mediate, if not make sense of, inconceivable bereavement in her fifth collection of poetry. “A black purse, / over her living shoulder, Love said nothing ...

Read Ilana Masad's review in Alta of Four Way Books author Sarah Stone's Marriage to the Sea at the link below!

Lives We Perform Sarah Stone’s linked novellas in Marriage to the Sea follow a theatrical family through grief, love, and the complications of self.

Big congratulations to Four Way Books author Isabella DeSendi, who was named a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award!

Award Winners The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.