May 5 Four Way Books Spring Reading Event

Please join us in welcoming Four Way Books for their Spring Reading Event here at Berl's.

May 5
7 pm

Featuring Four Way Books authors:

Karen Brennan, reading from little dark

Kevin Prufer, reading from Churches

Daniel Tobin, reading from The Net

Joy Katz, reading from All You Do Is Perceive

David J. Daniels, reading from Clean

Brett Fletcher Lauer, reading from A Hotel in Belgium

About the authors:

Karen Brennan is the author of six books of varying genres, most recently little dark (Four Way Books). A National Endowment of the Arts recipient, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Utah and teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She holds a PhD from University of Arizona.

Joy Katz is the author of three poetry collections, most recently All You Is Perceive (Four Way Books). A former Wallace Stegner and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, she lives in Pittsburgh, Pa., where she teaches in the graduate writing program at Chatham University.

David J. Daniels is the author of two chapbooks and the full-length collection, Clean, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. Raised in Texas, he is a former Stadler Poetry Fellow and Work Study Scholar at Bread Loaf. His work has appeared in Pleiades, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.

Kevin Prufer is the author of six poetry collections, mostly recently Churches (Four Way Books). He also co-curates the Unsung Masters Series and has edited several anthologies, including New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008; w/ Wayne Miller) and New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois UP, 2000). The recipient of three Pushcart prizes, multiple Best American Poetry selections, and fellowships from the NEA and the Lannan Foundation, he teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

Daniel Tobin is the author of six books of poetry, including his newest book, The Net (Four Way Books), and is the editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, The Selected Poems and Lola Ridge, and (with Pimone Triplett) Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art. His awards include the “The Discovery/The Nation Award,” The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Brett Fletcher Lauer is the author of A Hotel in Belgium (Four Way Books, April 2014). He is the deputy director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor at A Public Space. He is the co-editor of Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave, 2004) and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Fence, Harper’s, Tin House, and elsewhere.