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.