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FIELD

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Oberlin College Press

50 N. Professor St.

Oberlin, OH  44074-1091

Phone: (440) 775-8408

E-mail: Oc.press[at]oberlin[dot]edu

Web: www.oberlin.edu/ocpress

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: yes Reading period: 8/1-5/31 Response time: 6-8 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 Copy 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 Fall 2011 issue (#85) features a symposium on the work of Muriel Rukeyser, with essays by Linda Gregerson, A. Van Jordan, Mary Leader, Anne Marie Macari, Gerald Stern, and Kate Daniels, along with poems by Betsy Sholl, Thorpe Moeckel, Laura Kasischke, Chana Bloch, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Philip Metres, Sarah Maclay, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Pierre Peuchmaurd, Karin Gottshall, Sandra McPherson, Angela Ball, and Anna Journey, among many others.

(Number 84, Spring 2011) The spring issue features new poems by D. Nurkse, David Hernandez, D. A. Powell, Frannie Lindsay, Kevin Prufer, Lee Upton, and others. A few poets are new to our pages: Sarah Blake, Adam Day, Joseph Fasano, Bern Mulvey, and Ida Stewart. The editors review new releases. Pamela Alexander examines two recent releases by emerging writer Nick Lantz, who coincidentally has two new poems in this issue, and Martha Collins reviews new work by Major Jackson and Charles Wright. In addition, DeSales Harrison reviews two new books by Julie Carr; Kazim Ali writes about Ewa Chrusciel’s Strata; and guest reviewer Anna Journey looks at Beckian Fritz Goldberg’s new and selected poems, Reliquary Fever.