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Reginald Dwayne Betts on The Rumpus!

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the featured author for The Rumpus’ Poetry Book Club!

You can read the interview here, and buy a copy of his book, Bastards of the Reagan Era, here.

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Four Way Books Authors Events TODAY Thursday October 15

Today, Thursday, October 15, at 2 pm, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India) will give an interview for “At the Moment” which you can listen to online by clicking here. 

 Tonight, Thursday, October 15, at 6 pm, Eugenia Leigh (Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows) will read with Rickey Laurentiis and Mahogany L. Browne at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) in NYC. 

Tonight, Thursday, October 15, at 6 pm, Reginald Dwayne Betts (Bastards of the Reagan Era) will read with Ravi Howard, Sanderia Faye, Latoya Watkins, and Rosalyn Story for Kimblio Litfest at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 15, at 7 pm, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India) will read at The Poetry Institute (847 Chapel St.) in New Haven, CT.

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 15, at 7:30 pm, Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo (Digest) will read at SUNY Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, NY.

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 15, at 7 pm, Stephanie Ford (All Pilgrim) will read at The Poetry Lab (WE Labs, 235 E Broadway, 8th Floor) in Long Beach, CA. 

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, Bastards of the Reagan Era, Series | India, Digest, and All Pilgrim are all available from Four Way Books. 

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Four Way Books Author Readings This Week

This Wednesday, October 7, at 7 pm, Reginald Dwayne Betts (Bastards of the Reagan Era) will read at the Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University (900 State St.) in Salem, OR. 

This Thursday, October 8, at 7 pm, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India) will read for We Heart NYC Writers 317 (East Houston St.) in NYC.

This Friday, October 9, at 6 pm, Andrea Cohen (Furs Not Mine) will read with Michael Klein at Poets House (10 River Terrace) in NYC. 

 This Friday, October 9, at 7 pm, J. Mae Barizo (The Cumulus Effect) will read for The Red Sofa Reading Series (Indy Hall, 22 North 3rd St.) in Philadelphia, PA.

This Saturday, October 10, at 5 pm, Stephanie Ford (All Pilgrim) will read and have a conversation with Melissa Broder at Skylight Books (1818 N Vermont Ave.) in LA. 

All books are available from Four Way Books.

For up-to-date information about Four Way Books author events, visit our events page and/or our website.

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Four Way Books Authors Reading TOMORROW Thursday September 24 and Friday September 25

Tomorrow, Thursday, September 24, at 6 pm, Reginald Dwayne Betts (Bastards of the Reagan Era, available from Four Way Books) will read for Maury Brown Reading Series at Oakland University (2200 N. Squirrel Rd.) in Rochester, MI.

Tomorrow, Thursday, September 24, J. Mae Barizo (The Cumulus Effect, available from Four Way Books) will be visiting SUNY Newburgh in Newburgh, NY. She will give a lecture and masterclass at 2:30 pm and a reading at 7 pm. 

This Friday, September 25, at 6:30 pm, Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo (Digest, available from Four Way Books) will read with Debut-litzer Prize winner Eugenia Leigh (Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, available from Four Way Books) for The Glitter Pomegranate Reading Series at the Bedford Ave. Y in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY. 

For up-to-date information about Four Way Books author readings, visit our events page and/or our website.

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Publishers Weekly Looks Ahead to Two of Our Fall Titles

From the notice:

Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts (Oct. 6, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-935536-65-9) confronts the realities that frame an America often made invisible. Readers will see the city as distant lover, hear “the sound that comes from all / the hurt & want that leads a man to turn his back to the world,” and find the reasons why we return to what pains us.

Longevity by Laurel Blossom (Oct. 6, paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-1-935536-62-8) is a book-length narrative told in reverse, a fictional prose poem in fragments about the protagonist’s relationships with the women in her life and the deaths of those women: her mother, her best friend, her sister.

Both books will be released in October, and will be available for purchase soon at http://fourwaybooks.com/.

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“Missing Black Men in America” for WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio with FWB Author Reginald Dwayne Betts

Click here to listen to “Missing Black Men in America” by Laura Lee and Frank Stasio with Reginald Dwayne Betts (whose poetry collection Bastards of the Reagan Era is forthcoming from Four Way Books this fall) for WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio.