Berkeley Poetry Review

The Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is a widely-distributed American poetry journal published by the undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley and is considered the premier student-run poetry journal in the United States. Published annually since 1974, under the founding support of Josephine Miles, the review accepts submissions from across the nation.

Associated Events

Beginning in 2005, the Berkeley Poetry Review has held an annual poetry event, "Poetry After the Storm". With the support of California Poet Laureate Al Young, the event raises money every year for social awareness causes in New Orleans (such as the New Orleans Public Library Fund), and brings together poets from a variety of different backgrounds, including academic, slam, spoken word and performance poetry.

Former performers include Michael Palmer, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Kim Nalley, Xero Skidmore, and Tung Hui-Hu.

----In 2006 the Berkeley Poetry Review launched a new monthly poetry reading series at the U.C. Berkeley campus dedicated to working with Bay Area non-profit organizations whose focus is education and literacy to help them raise money through artistic events. Former poets include Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, giovanni singleton, Cody Gates, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Robert Thomas, Carol Snow, Truong Tran, Kristen Sbrogna, and Jessica Fisher.

Funding

The Berkeley Poetry Review is funded by the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), the Student Opportunity Fund run by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, and grants from the Consortium for the Arts Research Center.

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Former editors include Josephine Miles, Robert Pinsky, and Robert Hass.

Poets Who Have Been Featured in Berkeley Poetry Review

* Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist and poet, author of "Lolita" (1955).
* John Ashbery, influential and controversial American poet, winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (1975).
* Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.
* Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of the San Francisco bookstore City Lights, known for its publication of the literary works of beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
* Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet, former Berkeley professor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
* Robert Hass, Berkeley professor and recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and 2007 National Book Award for "Time and Materials."
* Lyn Hejinian, poet, essayist, translator, and current poetics professor at the University of California, Berkeley
* Frederico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist.
* Robert Pinsky, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000).
* Ishmael Reed, poet and novelist.
* C.K. Williams, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2000 for "Repair" (1999).
* Brenda Hillman
* Diane di Prima a renowned female poet from the Beat Generation
* Al Young, current California Poet Laureate
* Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States (2001-2003).
* Galway Kinnell, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1983 for "Selected Poems" (1982).
* Josephine Miles, poet and the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
* Thom Gunn, British poet.
* Gary Soto, California poet acclaimed for his pieces on the Mexican American experience.
* Francisco Aragon
* Michael Palmer
* Leslie Scalapino
* Yusef Komunyakaa, recipient of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize.
* Mark Levine
* Victor Hernandez Cruz
* Francisco X. Alarcon
* Leonard Nathan
* Geoffrey G. O'Brien
* Richard Siken, winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
* Aya de Leon
* Jessica Fisher, winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
* Peter Cooley
* Robet Sullivan
* Junichi semitsu
* Julie Carr

[http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bpr]