Berkeley Poetry Review – Publishing poetry at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1974.

Last Fall semester, Berkeley Poetry Review created our first multi-media zine, welcoming art of all types – poetry, microfiction, photography, paintings, doodles, diary entries, and more! Our theme was “made at home.” We were excited to see your creative pieces that speak to the home, the familiar, the intimate, the handcrafted, and everything in between. Stay tuned for a submission call for Fall 2024!

Our most recent issue is available digitally. We are so thankful for the energy and warmth of everyone involved in creating this body of work, especially that of the poets and artists who have trusted us with their work. It is, as always, an immense honor.

Cover Image by Evan Blackwell.
Evan Blackwell is an Artist based in Atlanta, GA. She received her M.F.A from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston, MA, and her B.F.A from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. She is working primarily in painting, from paper to canvas, to large scale murals. She is focusing on themes of abstraction as a historical archive and form of memory for both the collective and the individual.

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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. However, in Fall 2022 the MIDTERM will take the form of a multimedia zine.