S217. Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Saturday, March 30, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm
Participants
David Walker is an editor of FIELD and Oberlin College Press. He teaches English and creative writing at Oberlin College.
David Young works at Oberlin College Press. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, several anthologies, half a dozen critical studies, and many translations, including Rilke, Montale, Petrarch, Du Fu, Basho, and Miroslav Holub.
Stuart Friebert has published fifteen books of poetry, fifteen volumes of translations, two prose memoirs, and co-edited several anthologies. He founded The Writing Program at Oberlin, with help from colleagues; and cofounded Field/Oberlin College Press.
Martha Collins's most recent book of poems is Night Unto Night. She has also published eight earlier poetry collections and three cotranslated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. She is editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and an editor for the Oberlin College Press.
Kazim Ali is a poet, translator, essayist and fiction writer. His books include Inquisition, Bright Felon, and Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies. He is associate professor of creative writing and comparative literature at Oberlin College.