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.


	Dennis Hinrichsen is the winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize for his manuscript entitled Kurosawa's Dog, which the Press will publish in spring 2009. Hinrichsen, who lives in Lansing, Michigan, will also receive a prize of $1000. Thanks to all who entered the contest.


	J. W. Marshall, author of Meaning a Cloud, was recently interviewed in Poets & Writers online.

	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.

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Jean Gallagher:
STUBBORN

"In this intriguing and highly readable collection of poems what the poet calls 'the stubborn mass of all big ideas' meets her 'stubborn love for things as they seem.' She shows us how it feels for the human and the holy to interact."

--Mark Jarman