Tommye Blount, Brian Komei Dempster, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., & Luke Hankins | Four Way Books Presents

Authors Tommye Blount, Brian Komei Dempster, Elizabeth T. Gray Jr., and Luke Hankins discuss their books: Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Seize, Salient, and Radiant Obstacles.
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A Cave Canem alumnus, Tommye Blount is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020), a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award, and What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). A graduate from Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers, he has been the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Kresge Arts in Detroit and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Detroit, Blount now lives in the nearby suburb of Novi, Michigan.
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.
Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.’s long poem, Salient, was published by New Directions in May 2020. Her book-length sequence of poems, SERIES | INDIA, was published by Four Way Books in April 2015. Other work has appeared in The Paris Review, Little Star, Talisman, Paris Lit Up, Hyperallergic, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Best New Poets 2012, Poetry International, The Harvard Review, The New Orleans Review, The New England Review and other publications. The Process Series, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, selected poems from SALIENT for the development of GEOMANCY, a multi-media performance in February 2015. She has served as a Guest Editor for Epiphany magazine and for The New Haven Review, and as a consultant to and Board member of various literary journals and organizations.
Luke Hankins is the author of two poetry collections, Radiant Obstacles and Weak Devotions, as well as a collection of essays, The Work of Creation. A volume of his translations from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, A Cry in the Snow & Other Poems, was released by Seagull Books in 2019. Hankins is the founder and editor of Orison Books, a non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
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