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POETALK
poetry magazine
A publication of the BAY AREA POETS COALITION (BAPC)
Contact: poetalk@aol.com
Editor: Maggie Morley (see bio below)
Associate Editor: John Rowe
Administrative Assistance: Cherise Wyneken
Cover Price: $3.00
Subscription: $5.00 for 2 issues
Sample copy: $2.00
POETALK, currently appearing 1-2 times per year (1 issue published 2006, 1 issue 2007, planning for 2 issues in 2008), 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. Longer poems of outstanding quality accepted. Rhyme must be well done.
POETALK is 36 pages, digest-sized, photocopied, saddle-stapled with heavy card cover.
ARTWORK: We also accept submissions of quality black and white artwork for the cover of POETALK.
Press run: 400 copies
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HOW TO SUBMIT
Submit 3-5 poems, typed and single-spaced, with self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE), no more than twice a year. Response time is usually within 6 months.
Manuscripts should be clearly typewritten and include author's name and mailing address on every page. Include e-mail address.
We accept simultaneous and previously published work, but must be noted. Contributors receive 1 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.
Send submissions, requests for guidelines/sample issues, or subscription payment (check or money order) to:
POETALK
PO BOX 11435
BERKELEY, CA 94712-2435
e-mail: poetalk@aol.com
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Maggie Morley is a retired librarian/tech editor/writer living in Kensington, California. She has been POETALK's Editor since 1998. She also worked on the editorial staff of Blue Unicorn, a poetry triquarterly. Her poems have appeared in various poetry publications in the U.S. and the U.K. Her chapbook, At Blake Gardens, was published by Kenyon Press in 2004. Words are her meat and drink. When she is not poetizing, she plays tournament Scrabble(r), a preoccupation which "does not feed the sensibilities, but does keep the mind whipping about."
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Winter/Spring 2008 POETALK (pictured above) is the current issue as of 4/08.
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WINTER/SPRING 2008 CONTRIBUTORS:
John M. Anderson, Barry Ballard, Christopher Barnes, Charles Baudelaire (translation by Paul Sohar), David Bernatchez, Mel Bernstein, E.G. Burrows, Rene Cardenas, Rachel Dalsing, Frederick Davis, Graham Duncan, W.D. Fortie, Raul Garcia, Rafael Jesús González, Carol Hamilton, Suzanne Harvey, Phyllis Henry-Jordan, Mary Kolesnikova, Will Landis, Daniel F. Langton, L.M. Lewis, David Lewitzky, Lyn Lifshin, Richard Luftig, Jim Lyle, Randall Marquardt, Martha Meltzer, William Meyer, Amy Miller, Joyce Odam, Andrew Oerke, John Robert Pray, Brady Rhoades, Maria Rosales, Erica Rösi, , Larry M. Sams, Perry Scheinok, Charles Sharpe, Kevin Shaw, Robert M. Shelby, Brian Short, Ray Skjelbred, J. Mel Smith, Jan Steckel, Truth Thomas, Shirley Valencia, Peter Vetrano, Philip A. Waterhouse, Jim Watson-Gove, Scott Weiss, Dee Whalen, Linda N. Woito, Cherise Wyneken
POEM FROM POETALK
Stars Over Cairo
The Nile flutters a bracelet
of bridge-lights imitating the puny stars
that jar the universe. Do stars
plow through space or does space drag
a harrow of dark matter through clumps of stars?
The question is too large;
night’s immaterial enough to try to know,
but here, she’s a belly dancer in a smoky
suburb of Cairo, a shadow
dressed in sequins of city lights
that dream the clothes off her husband the Sun.
Barges glide upstream, downstream
with equal ease, more basic
than commerce. It is what boats
and their boatmen are like to do
when no one interferes with them.
Night is a river but no river is the night.
The reflection of the bridge-lamps in the water
mimics the secrets of the plasma-packed stars,
and still the constellations elude our day.
We know them for what our words say.
Andrew Oerke, Miami Fl
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