J.W. Marshall, who co-owns Open Books: A Poem Emporium, a poetry-only
bookstore in Seattle, Wash., has won the 2007 Field Poetry Prize from
Oberlin College, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He
receives $1,000 and publication of his first collection of poetry,
Meaning a Cloud, by Oberlin University Press in March. Congratulations!
Marshall owns Open Books with his wife, Christine Deavel, also a poet.
The store, which stocks more than 6,000 new, used and out-of-print
poetry and related titles, is located at 2414 N. 45th St. Seattle,
Wash. 98103;
206-633-0811; www.openpoetrybooks.com.