Oberlin College Press

03/23/2022

2015: Celebrating the twenty-third Kingsley Tufts Poetry Winner: Enchantée by Angie Estes. “The heart doesn’t need suspenders, like the kites / flown by those who gathered at the end / of the Ile de la Cité to pull down / and back on invisible strings” (p.30) http://www.angieestes.com/

11/22/2021

The first issue of FIELD included translations of three Tomas Transtromer poems by Robert Bly, and throughout virtually the whole history of the magazine Bly continued to contribute poems, essays, and translations. Bly was a crucial figure in the development of American poetry and translation throughout the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, and FIELD was grateful for his support and generosity. He died yesterday at the age of 94. RIP.

04/06/2020

We're delighted that Sharon Dolin's translation of Gemma Gorga's BOOK OF MINUTES has been named to the longlist of nominees for the Best Translated Book Award in poetry for 2020. Huzzah!

https://themillions.com/2020/04/best-translated-book-awards-names-2020-longlists.html

The 35 books on this year's fiction and poetry longlists represent 20 different countries and feature authors writing in 18 languages.

01/15/2020

A poem from Gemma Gorga's BOOK OF MINUTES, translated by Sharon Dolin, appears as the Editor's Choice today on Poetry Daily. Yay!

from "Book of Minutes" published by Oberlin College Press

11/04/2019

This great review of Will Schutt's translation of Edoardo Sanguineti's MY LIFE, I LAPPED IT UP has just appeared on Reading in Translation. "In Schutt, Sanguineti already has met his best American translator."

  By Judith Vollmer All good poems wrestle with acute contradictions. They sweat and sing the facts and mysteries of living, while simultaneously revealing the scaffoldings and artistic inten…

10/31/2019

Check out two poems translated beautifully by Will Schutt on Poetry Daily today.

from "My Life, I Lapped It Up" published by Oberlin College Press

09/18/2019

Oberlin College Press is sad to announce the death of Dennis Schmitz last week. His ABOUT NIGHT (1993) was the first book in the FIELD Poetry Series, followed by ANIMISM in 2014, and he was among the poets most often published in FIELD, beginning with the very first issue. It was a pleasure and a privilege to publish his work, and he will be much missed.
http://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/SchmitzAnimism.htm

There is a radiant wisdom that has always infused the poetry of Dennis Schmitz, a remarkable light that is able to reflect precisely off even the most corrupted surfaces of our daily world. Since reading his very first collection, the astonishing We Weep for Our Strangeness, I have always thought of...

09/03/2019

A terrific review by Mary Ann Newman of Sharon Dolin's translation of Gemma Gorga's BOOK OF MINUTES has just appeared on Reading in Translation.

https://readingintranslation.com/2019/09/03/everyday-illuminations-gemma-gorgas-book-of-minutes-translated-from-catalan-by-sharon-dolin/

By Mary Ann Newman Unlike American poetry, Catalan poetry tends to shun the confessional or the directly personal. To revive a Lacanian phrase, Catalan poetry is always already political. A languag…

06/25/2019

This gorgeous poem from Angie Estes' PAROLE appears today on Poetry Daily.

from "Parole" published by Oberlin College Press

06/07/2019

05/24/2019

Three great pieces of news about Oberlin College Press author Angie Estes. Congratulations, Angie!

Angie Estes wins 2019 Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award
http://www.arts.illinois.gov/news/2019-fellowship-award-recipients

Stephanie Burt's review of PAROLE in The Yale Review:
https://yalereview.yale.edu/poetry-review-nine-recent-collections

Angie Estes SELECTED AS 2019–2020 RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FELLOW

http://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Estes_Parole.htm

Whenever I see a poem by Angie Estes I prepare myself for serious delight. Her timing and her ever-uninhibited instinct for poetic shape are the triumphs of a first-rate musical intelligence. Angie Estes is Fred Astaire and Ginger too: backwards in high heels, forward on rollerskates, never have cla...

04/04/2019

It's not too late to preorder the book Ilya Kaminsky called "by far the best book of prose poems I have read in the past decade."
Details at http://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Gorga.htm

04/02/2019

Oberlin-area poets and poetry fans: take note!

03/28/2019

Hey, , the wonderful Will Schutt will be signing copies of his new translation of Edoardo Sanguineti this afternoon at 3:00 at our table at the bookfair. Don’t miss it!

03/26/2019

It's actually here! FIELD #100, with its special section of 50 poems from our entire 50-year history, has arrived, and advance copies will be available at our table at the bookfair. We expect this issue to sell out, so be sure to pick up a copy. We look forward to saying hello.

03/21/2019

The 100th issue of FIELD is about to be mailed to subscribers, and advance copies will be available at the bookfair. Besides the usual wealth of scintillating new work, it includes 50 poems representing the range of work from our whole 50-year history. Don't miss it!

02/01/2019

Leah Falk's "Satellites," from the fall FIELD, is featured today on Poetry Daily!

Poetry Daily - A Featured Poem from the online poetry anthology and bookstore, featuring a new poem every day, and more.

01/25/2019

Sharon Dolin's translation of Gemma Gorga's exquisite BOOK OF MINUTES has just gone to the printer, and is available for preorder now. Ilya Kaminsky calls it "by far the best book of prose poems I have read in the past decade." You don't want to miss it.

More info here: http://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Gorga.htm

01/11/2019

Check out Sharon Dolin's translation of Catalan poet Gemma Gorga in GUERNICA today. Her translation of Gorga's BOOK OF MINUTES will be out from Oberlin College Press in April.

https://www.guernicamag.com/the-meal/

death reviews the menu for the umpteenth time, / repeats our names between its teeth

10/24/2018

It’s out!

10/01/2018

Poetry Society of America has a nice piece on "My Life I Lapped It Up," Will Schutt's new translation of the Italian poet Edoardo Sanguineti out from Oberlin College Press. Check out the article and then go get the book!

http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/Sanguineti/

The Italian avant-garde poet Edoardo Sanguineti often found models for his poems in other art forms. "[M]y private appeal to other artistic situations," he wrote in an essay in 1961, "was a way of breaking, in solitude, poetic solitude itself." In addition to novels, plays, critical essays, translat...

09/19/2018

Congrats to Will Schutt, just named to the shortlist for the ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Award (https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/ ). His wonderful new translation of Edoardo Sanguineti's selected poems is available to preorder--details here: http://www2.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Sanguineti.htm

08/28/2018

The fall FIELD, with a symposium on Charles Simic and a host of great new poems, is off to the printer. Is your subscription up to date?

08/01/2018

We're delighted that our panel celebrating fifty years of FIELD has been accepted for AWP next March in Portland. Five editors, past and present--David Young, Stuart Friebert, David Walker, Martha Collins, and Kazim Ali--will discuss FIELD's history and values, including its annual symposium of essays on the work of a major poet, its commitment to translation, and its openness to a wide variety of voices, both established and emerging. See you in Portland?
https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview

05/12/2018

We've had several reports from people having trouble getting through to FIELD's submissions manager. We *are* still reading for FIELD 99 and 100, and would love to see your best work. Be sure you're using the correct URL: https://ocpress.submittable.com/submit

Welcome to the Oberlin College Press submissions manager. This page is now accepting submissions for FIELD magazine only. We are still reading for FIELD 99 and 100, and we do not plan to take a summer hiatus this year. We are not currently considering manuscripts for the FIELD Translation Series. Th...

05/01/2018

FIELD #98 poet Talvikki Ansel is featured on Poetry Daily today. Check out her poem, "16 Stanzas in February." http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17653

Poetry Daily - A Featured Poem from the online poetry anthology and bookstore, featuring a new poem every day, and more.

03/04/2018

Anyone in the Amherst (MA) area can hear 2017 FIELD Poetry Prize winner James Haug reading from the brand-new RIVERAIN (out Tuesday!) tomorrow afternoon at the Jones Library.

https://allevents.in/amherst/jubilat-jones-presents-james-haug-and-emily-hunt/148399782515923

jubilat / Jones Presents: James Haug & Emily Hunt Come to Amherst's historic Jones Library to hear two wonderful poets give the gift of poetry. WHERE: The Jones Library, the Goodwin Room WHEN: Sunday, March 4, 3 pm A short Q&A will follow the readin

02/26/2018

The spring FIELD is at the printer--out soon!

01/29/2018

Just over a month until the 2017 FIELD Poetry Prize winner, James Haug's RIVERAIN, meets the world. Available to pre-order now--at your local indie, if you can! http://bit.ly/2DNwNRH

01/02/2018

Here's a wonderful new interview with Jeffrey Skinner, author of our 2016 FIELD Poetry Prize winner, CHANCE DIVINE. It would be a splendid book to kick off your new year.

http://plumepoetry.com/2017/12/featured-selection-jeffrey-skinner/