Oberlin College Press



	FIELD, a twice-yearly journal, aims to publish the very best of contemporary poetry and poetics. The Spring 2008 issue features new poems by Christopher Howell, Nance Van Winckel, Michael Chitwood, Ellen Wehle, Angie Estes, Dennis Hinrichsen, Matthew Gavin Frank, Lynn Powell, Philip Metres, Pablo Tanguay, and Dennis Schmitz, translations of K. Michel, Karl Krolow, Yosa Buson, and Emmanuel Moses, and essay-reviews on books by Susan Tichy, Randall Jarrell, and Sandra McPherson. Look for the new issue in your local bookstore, or start a subscription today!




Oberlin College Press publishes new collections of poetry by both established and emerging American poets, world poetry in illuminating translations, and innovative anthologies of poetry and poetics. Recent publications include volumes by Timothy Kelly and J. W. Marshall, American Alphabets, a distinctive anthology of contemporary poetry, and High Lonesome, a collection of essays on the work of Charles Wright.


	The guidelines for the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize competition are now available. Entries will be accepted during the month of May.

	J. W. Marshall's 2007 FIELD Poetry Prize-winning Meaning a Cloud and Timothy Kelly's The Extremities are now both out and available.


	Timothy Kelly will be reading from The Extremities at various venues in the Pacific Northwest in the next few months. Watch this space for details.

	Marilyn Hacker's essay from the Adrienne Rich symposium and her translation of an Amina Said poem, both from the fall FIELD, have have appeared recently on the Poetry Daily website.

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LIE AWAKE LAKE

"Lie Awake Lake is made out of a brilliance of thought, of heart, and of language that we find only in the truest poetry. It is as relentless and unmediated as if it was letters or diaries, but it is song--come to give us human animals pleasure and to help us endure."
--Jean Valentine