Berkeley Poetry Review

Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is the University of California, Berkeley's longest-running poetry journal, published annually since 1974. It is widely regarded as one of the premier student-managed journals in the country. The Berkeley Poetry Review has been published at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1974. It has earned the distinction of being one of the premier student-managed journals in the country. 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. We are particularly interested in work that complicates prevailing conceptions of race, gender, sexuality, ecology, poetic form, and narrative voice. Berkeley Poetry Review is distributed nationwide through bookstores, libraries, and our online store.