BPW&P Titles
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About BPW&P
BP&WP existed in Berkeley, California, from 1969-1989. During that time 30 issues of its magazine, 28 chapbooks by individual poets, and an anthology of the work from 1970-1980 were produced and published.
Biweekly writing workshops, which were free and open to the public, provided a forum within the community for the exchange of criticism and support for the writing process. The best material from the workshops as well as outside submissions were presented in the magazine. The anthology, edited by unpaid volunteer Co-op members, offered an eclectic collection of talent from the Bay Area during those years, nurtured and cultivated at the Berkeley Poets Workshop and Press.
The Co-op, a nonprofit organization, beat the odds by surviving for two decades as a sanctuary and laboratory for emerging writers and their work to become a Berkeley institution, receiving awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Berkeley Arts Council and the California Arts Council, and garnering acclaim in such venues as the New York Times and the Village Voice.
He jerked it into the boat
and slit the belly open:
lists, inventories,
mouths pressed between pages,
ancient cities half digested,
and all the lost languages vanishing once more
into the skin
like colors that are only true in darkness.
Bruce Hawkins
Chapbooks
Jackbird – Bruce Boston
She Comes When You’re Leaving – Bruce Boston
Slow Juggling – Karen Brodine
Seaward – Betty Coon
Unfree Associations – Michael Covino
Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope – Lucille Day
Newspaper Stories & Other Poems – Patricia Dienstfrey
The Reason for Nasturtiums – Chitra Divakaruni
All Pieces of a Legacy – Charles Entrekin
Casting for the Cutthroat & Other Poems – Charles Entrekin
In This Hour – Charles Entrekin
You Notice the Body – by Gail Rudd Entrekin
Half a Bottle of Catsup – Ted Fleischman
Perception Barriers – Robert Frazier
Wordrows – Bruce Hawkins
The Ghost of the Buick – Bruce Hawkins
Snake Blossoms – Belden Johnson
Instead of a Camera – Carla Kandinsky
Dancing at Ground Zero – Gerald Jorge Lee
The Impossibility of Redemption Is Something We Hadn’t Figured
On – Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Wash Me On Home, Mama – Peter Najarian
Once More Out of Darkness and other poems – Alicia Ostriker
John Danced – Gail Rudd Entrekin
Over by the Caves – Jennifer Stone
Truant Bather – Mark Taksa
The Machine Shuts Down – Rod Tulloss
By Parked Cars – J.D. Woolery