Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is the University of California, Berkeley's longest-running poetry journal, having been published annually since 1974. It has earned the distinction of being one of the premier student-managed journals in the country. Throughout the academic year, our staff works to produce a volume of poetry, with submissions coming from all across the nation, as well as from students, faculty, and friends of the university. In addition, we wish to promote the serious consideration of student creative writing and to foster a welcoming community where poets can hone their craft and receive helpful feedback about their work.

Past BPR issues have debuted the work of poets and writers such as Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Leslie Scalapino, Alfred Goldbarth, Luis Omar Salinas, Robert Pinsky, C.K. Williams, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell, Mark Levine, Thom Gunn, Gary Soto, Ishmael Reed, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Josephine Miles, Leonard Nathan, and many others.

BPR appreciates your interest in submitting poetry for Issue 40! Due to technical issues with our web host over the weekend, our submission deadline has been extended to March 8, 2009.

As a student publication of UC Berkeley, BPR welcomes all interested undergraduates and recent alumni to join our staff. For more information, see the Join Our Staff page.

Berkeley Poetry Review is distributed in bookstores and libraries nationwide, as well as online through Amazon and the American Book Exchange.