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FIELD

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

50 N. Professor St.

Oberlin, OH  44074-1091

Phone: (440) 775-8408 Fax: (440) 775-8124

E-mail: Oc.press@oberlin.edu

Web: www.oberlin.edu/ocpress

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 to 8 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0015-0657 Founded: 1969 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 100 Sample copy (postpaid): $7 Cover Price: $7 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 Bruce Beasley, Marianne Boruch, Michael Chitwood, Carol Moldaw, Lia Purpura, 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 (mostly recently Hart Crane, Jean Valentine, and Paul Celan). Spring issues include essay-length reviews by the editors and invited critics.

Recent issue:

Fall 2008
This year's fall symposium is a tribute to the late Jane Cooper with concise essays on a fine selection of her poems by Kazim Ali, Martha Collins, Marie Howe, Jan Heller Levi, Philip Levine, Tom Lux and Jean Valentine. This issue of FIELD includes new work by Marianne Boruch, Bob Hicok, Arthur Sze and Franz Wright, among others, and translations of work by Nicolas Born (Eric Torgersen), Sylvia Fischerová (Stuart Friebert), and Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (Adam Giannelli).

Spring 2008
Discover new work by Christopher Howell, Nance Van Winckel, and Angie Estes as well as translations by Arthur Sze (K. Michel), Marilyn Hacker (Emmanuel Moses), Stuart Friebert (Karl Krolow) and Amy England (Yosa Buson). Review essays discuss the latest books by Susan Tichy, Randall Jarrell, and Sandra McPherson.

Fall 2007
This packed issue features a symposium on Adrienne Rich, new poetry by Carl Phillips, Lia Purpura, Anne Marie Macari and many others. Also included are two poems by J. W. Marshall, winner of the 2007 FIELD Poetry Prize, whose collection, Meaning a Cloud, will be published in March 2008.