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Hear Rachel Eliza Griffiths Read TONIGHT Tuesday September 22 in Bryant Park
Tonight, Tuesday, September 22, at 7 pm, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow, available from Four Way Books) is reading with Michael Morse, Michael Klein, and Sean Singer at Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC.
Four Way Books Author Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reading Tomorrow Tuesday September 22 in Bryant Park
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, at 7 pm, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow, available from Four Way Books) will read with Michael Morse, Michael Klein, and Sean Singer in the Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC.
Four Way Books Author Readings Next Week
This Tuesday, September 22, at 7 pm, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow, available from Four Way Books) will read with Michael Morse, Michael Klein, and Sean Singer at Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC.
This Thursday, September 24, at 6 pm, Reginald Dwayne Betts (Bastards of the Reagan Era, available from Four Way Books) will read for the Maury Brown Reading Series at Oakland University (2200 N. Squirrel Rd.) in Rochester, MI.
This Thursday, September 24, J. Mae Barizo (The Cumulus Effect, available from Four Way Books) will be at SUNY Newburgh to give a lecture and masterclass at 2:30 pm and a reading at 7 pm.
Next Friday, September 25, Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo (Digest, available from Four Way Books) and Debut-litzer Prize winner Eugenia Leigh (Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, available from Four Way Books) will read for The Glitter Pomegranate Reading Series at the Bedford Ave. Y in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
For up-to-date information about author events, visit our events page and/or our website.
Hear Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Gregory Pardlo, and Daniel Wolff Read TONIGHT Wednesday 5/27 @ KGB in NYC
Tonight, Wednesday, May 27, at 7 pm, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow), Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo (Digest), and Daniel Wolff (The Names of Birds) will read at KGB Bar (85 E 4th St.) in NYC.
Series | India, Lighting the Shadow, Digest, and The Names of Birds are available from Four Way Books.
Four Way Books Author Rachel Eliza Griffiths Profiled in American Poets Magazine
From the review in American Poets, the journal of The Academy of American Poets:
“Lighting the Shadow, Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s fourth book, deepens her lush, neo-gothic sensibilities, concerned with the personal, political, and ‘questions light cannot answer...’ Griffiths’ lexicon is full of wings, blood, and stones, as she is ‘Passing through the aviary of dead poets’ to a space that is her own...”
Lighting the Shadow is available from Four Way Books.
Lighting the Shadow, along with our other Spring 2015 titles, is now available from Four Way Books!
Meet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Lighting the Shadow
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet and visual artist. She is the recipient of fellowships including Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony, and the Cave Canem Foundation. Her visual and literary work has appeared widely. Griffiths is the creator and director of P.O.P (Poets on Poetry), a video series of contemporary poets featured by the Academy of American Poets. Her third collection of poetry, Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose), was selected for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Currently, Griffiths teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.
About Lighting the Shadow
Lighting the Shadow is about a woman's evolving journey through desire, grief, trauma, and the peculiar historical American psyche of desire and violence. These poems explore the international and psychological wars women survive -- wars inflicted through various mediums that employ art, race, and literature. Furthermore, the collection is about a woman's transformation and acceptance of her complicated attempts to balance her spirit's own spectrum. Pulling the poet away from death, these poems insist that she open her life to her own powers and the powers of the greater world--a world that is both bright and dark.
Praise for Lighting the Shadow
“Lighting the Shadow is a unique embodiment of the unseen space between language and spirit. In bristling eloquence, Griffiths has written about history as the embodiment of personal loss, about the soul's traveled landscape in the inner breath of what constitutes gender and humanity. The imagery in these poems rips through to the reader with a freshness that comes only from a poet who knows the terrain of the subconscious, the place where speech and gesture, word and act, water and stone form the invisible reality. The figure of the mystic in the body of mythos, these poems are astonishing and tangible as Johnny Cash's black suit. This is the brand of a sincerity in suffering that has made of itself the deepest compassion. Lighting the Shadow is as much about the truer definition of art as it is about the subjects that live inside it. Bravo." -- Afaa Michael Weaver
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Upcoming Readings for Rachel Eliza
April 9 @ 7 pm for AWP Minneapolis Offsite Reading with Andrea Cohen, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Josh Kalscheur, Paul Otremba, and Gregory Pardlo as well as readers from Bull City Press, Persea Books, and Unicorn Press @ 612 Brew (in the cellar event room, 945 Broadway St. NE) in Minneapolis, MN (9 minute cab ride from convention center).
April 11 from 10-11 am AWP AUTHOR SIGNING @ tables 1423 & 1425 with Eugenia Leigh.
April 19 for BLOOM Women Writers Anniversary Reading in NYC.
April 23 for In Conversation & Images with Nikky Finney, and Parneshia Jones @ the Schomberg Center in NYC.
April 24th-26th with Cynthia Cruz for the Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival in Bronxville, NY.
April 25 at 5 pm for Berkshire Festival of Women Writers with Cammy Thomas and Sara London at the Great Barrington Train Station in Great Barrington, MA.
May 1-3 for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival with Andrea Cohen, Cynthia Cruz, Gregory Pardlo, and Cammy Thomas in Salem, MA.
May 3 @ Harlem Arts Salon in NYC.
May 6 @ 7 pm for the Four Way Books Spring Launch Reading with Andrea Cohen, Paul Otremba, and Rebecca Reilly @ Book Culture on Columbus (450 Columbus Ave (between 81st and 82nd Street) in NYC.
May 7 @ The Poetry Center of Chicago in Chicago, IL.
May 27 @ 7 PM with Daniel Wolff, Gregory Pardlo, and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. @ KGB Bar (85 E 4th St.) in NYC.
June 5 for Glittering Pomegranate Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY.
June 9 for Four Way Books at Hugo House with Josh Kalscheur and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. in Seattle, WA.
For up-to-date information about author readings, visit our events page and/or website.
Multiple Four Way Books Author Readings TODAY Thursday March 19
Today, Thursday, March 19, at 4 pm, Andrea Cohen (Furs Not Mine, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring) will read with Danielle Jones-Pruett at the Writers House at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA.
Also today, Thursday, March 19, at 4 pm, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring) will be reading at the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.
Tonight, Thursday, March 19, at 7:30 pm, Cammy Thomas (Inscriptions, available from fourwaybooks.com) will read with Bill Mayer at Moe’s Books (2476 Telegraph Avenue) in Berkeley, CA.
Tonight, Thursday, March 19, at 8 pm, Patrick Lawler (The Meaning of If: Stories, available from fourwaybooks.com) will read at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA.
Liam Callanan (Listen and Other Stories, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring) and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring) will both be reading at the Southern Methodist University LitFest at SMU in Dallas, TX. It begins today, Thursday, March 19, and will end this Saturday, March 21.
TONIGHT Wednesday March 18 Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Gregory Pardlo, and Daniel Wolff @ WORD Bookstore
Tonight, March 18, at 7 pm, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring), Rachel Eliza Griffiths (Lighting the Shadow, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring), Gregory Pardlo (Digest, available from fourwaybooks.com), and Daniel Wolff (The Names of Birds, forthcoming from Four Way Books this spring) will read at WORD Bookstore (126 Franklin Street) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
