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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

Web: www.oberlin.edu/ocpress

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 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.

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).