Website
Type Of Publisher
Magazine
Genres Published
Essays, Poetry, Reviews, Translation
Year Established
1974
Address
Berkeley, CA
Name
Angel Leyba
Title
Managing Editor
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
The Berkeley Poetry Review has been published at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1974. We’ve featured the work of both new and established poets and writers, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brenda Hillman, Czesław Miłosz, Cole Swensen, Robert Hass, Ishmael Reed, Thom Gunn, and many others from the Bay Area poetry community. We seek language-based and/or experimental writing, translations, art, and (less frequently) essays and interviews, and are particularly interested in work that complicates prevailing conceptions of race, gender, sexuality, ecology, poetic form, and narrative voice. We release our MIDTERM chapbook each December, and our annual issue the following May.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Do You Have Any Cover Letter Advice?
Don't stress! Think of it more as an opportunity for you to put a face behind the poems you submit. In other words, whatever you feel is pertinent for us to know about who you are outside of the poems you've written is welcomed and appreciated.
What Do You Look For In A Submission?
Poems that explore a topic but don’t attempt to solve it and are loud by remaining quiet. But more importantly I am looking for work that challenges what I think I know about poetry so far.
What Advice Do You Have For First-time Submitters?
We are less impressed by extensive publication history than we are by new voices who often bring a new way of storytelling to the poetic line. Please don't shy away from showing us your brilliance.
Who Is Your Ideal Reader?
Lovers and friends of poetry who have traditionally been unrepresented in the literary world, ya'll know who you are and we see you.
