New Editorial Board (as of 2011) Al Averbach Jan Dederick Administrative/Production Assistance:
Cover Price: $3.00 Subscription: $5.00 for two issues.
Sample copy (back-issue): $2.00 (see pdf attachment at bottom of this page for complete sample
issue of POETALK-Winter/Spring 2007)
POETALK, usually appears 1-2 times per year, publishes 60-70 poets each issue and is open to all. We want to publish your best work. We welcome all forms of poetry, and look for imaginative language and perspective. No particular genre. Short poems (under 35 lines) are preferred. We always have a particular need for "shorties" (i.e. haiku, tanka, etc.) under 10 lines. Longer poems of outstanding quality accepted. Rhyme must be well done. We are also interested in translations.
POETALK is 36 pages, digest-sized, photocopied, saddle-stapled with heavy card cover.
Basic Submission Info: Poems are read year-round. Send 3-5 poems, typed and single-spaced, with self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) if you want your work returned, no more than twice a year. Manuscripts should be clearly typewritten and include author's name, mailing address & email address on every page. We prefer to correspond via email. Also, OK to submit via email -please paste poems into the body of the email message (rather than attachments). Accepts simultaneous submissions and previously published work, but must be noted. Contributors receive one copy. All rights revert to authors upon publication. Advice: "If you don't want suggested revisions you need to say so clearly in your cover letter or indicate on each poem submitted."
For complete guidelines, see the pdf attachment at the bottom of this page. You may also request by email or send SASE to PO Box address.
POETALK
1791 SOLANO AVE. #A11
BERKELEY, CA 94707-2209 (new mailing address as of April 2011)
email: poetalk@aol.com _________________________________________________
Covers of previous two issues that appeared in 2009. (No issues published in 2010).   | Current Issue
 SUMMER/AUTUMN 2011 CONTRIBUTORS
David Alpaugh • Sharon Sailer Andrews • Lili Artel
Bobby Steve Baker • Claire J. Baker • Jan Ball Gustavo A. Bécquer (translated by Thomas Feeny) Francesca Bell • Roger Cowin • Jacqueline de Weever Jan Dederick • Alejandro Escudé • Randy Fingland Marguerite Keil Flanders • George Gott • John Grey
Carol Hamilton • Arthur Winfield Knight • Stephen Kopel
T.R. Leonard • Gregory Liffick • Lyn Lifshin • Stephen Linsley Frederico García Lorca (translated by
Thomas Feeny) Stephanie Low • Jeanne Lupton • Michael Meinhoff William Meyer, Jr. • Amy Miller • Maggie Morley • Susan Morse Judith Newton • B.Z. Niditch • Andrew Oerke • Dmitri Peskov Ross Plovnick • Jane Rades • Joseph Raffa • Anne Malin Ringwalt Justin Rogers • Dennis Saleh • Jeff Saperstein • Mather Schneider Ray Skjelbred • Jeanine Stevens • Vince Storti • Kevin Sweeney Peter Tamases • John W. Teeter, Jr. • Peter Tobey • TWIXT Elisabeth Vodola • David Waite • Marty Walsh • Diane Webster J.T. Whitehead • A.D. Winans • Cherise Wyneken
The following appears on Page 1 of SUMMER/AUTUMN 2011
This issue of POETALK is dedicated to its now editor emerita, Maggie Morley. THANK YOU Maggie for your thoughtful and skillful editing of this journal over the past decade. POETALK’s new editorial board, and all those associated with this publication who appreciate the variety and quality of the poetry that’s been presented in these pages, honor you. So before we move forward, this Page 1 is all yours, Maggie. Cheers to you!
Appreciation goes out to all the past editors of POETALK through the years (POETALK first appeared in the late 1970s in a newsletter format): Maggi H. Meyer Carter McKenzie Lisa Wibble Blaine Hammond Dale Hermann Mark States and others who served on a temporary basis. |