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FIELD
Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Oberlin College Press
50 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH 44074-1091
Phone: (440) 775-8408 Fax: (440) 775-8124
E-mail: Oc.press <at> oberlin <dot> edu
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 to 8 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes, FIELD Poetry Prize ISSN: 0015-0657 Founded: 1969 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Cornell University Press Services Average pages: 100 Sample copy (postpaid): $8 Cover Price: $8 Subscription: $16/1 yr, $28/2 yrs
Publisher’s Description: Since 1969, FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics has been celebrated as one of the most stimulating poetry journals. FIELD regularly publishes the liveliest American poets, such as Christopher Buckley, Alice Friman, Timothy Liu, Sarah Vap and Franz Wright.
Many contributors to each issue are new to the magazine and are very often poets who have yet to publish a first book. Being firmly committed to an international sense of the poetry scene, FIELD also features translations. Fall issues are prized for their symposia on the work of a featured poet (most recently Jane Cooper and Adrienne Rich). Spring issues include essay-length reviews by the editors and invited critics.
Recent issues:
The spring 2010 issue (#82) takes off with Bob Hicok’s “Forays into life saving” and moves along Dixon J. Jones’s “Eliot Highway” with new work by Angela Ball, Bruce Beasley, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Phil Metres and Carol Potter, among others. Translations of Olvido Garcia Valdés by Catherine Hammond, Ghassan Zaqtan by Fady Joudah, and Emmanuel Moses by Marilyn Hacker add to this rich collection. The issue winds down with five review-essays, including “Two Old Guys,” David’s Young’s look at new releases by Jack Gilbert and Philip Levine.
The Fall 2009 issue (#81) features a symposium on the work of Philip Levine, with essays by Peter Klappert, Lee Upton, Edward Hirsch, Kathy Fagan, Kate Daniels, Tom Sleigh, and David St. John, followed by poems by Philip Levine, Betsy Sholl, Sherod Santos, Daneen Wardrop, Jay Rogoff, Jim Daniels, Chana Bloch, Marianne Boruch, Shirley Kaufman, Ralph Burns, Nance Van Winckel, Will Schutt, Gretchen Primack, Nancy Willard, and a host of others.
The Spring 2009 issue (#80) is the largest in FIELD's history. This special all-poetry issue, commemorating our 40th anniversary, includes great new work by D. Nurkse, Kevin Prufer, Thomas Lux, Betsy Sholl, Janice N. Harrington, David St. John, Emmanuel Moses, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Carl Phillips, Franz Wright, Milan Djordjevic, Eric Pankey, Frannie Lindsay, Wayne Miller, Amit Majmudar, Jean Valentine, Heather Sellers, Timothy Liu, Jennifer Atkinson, Dennis Schmitz, Charles Wright, and a host of others.