Welcome to Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into the San Francisco Bay. Since 2001, we have produced twenty-six outstanding books of poetry, sharing our commitment to excellence with the poetry world.
For a printable PDF of the 2012 Catalog... New Titles for 2012
Judy Halebsky
Space/Gap/Interval/Distance
“Space/Gap/Interval/Distance engages the reader in rapt translation—between languages, among the visual, the semantic, and the kinesthetic—by way of a poet’s journey of return and what remains unsaid. What singles this work out is that after reading each poem, we are left with evocative images that initiate journeys of translation continuing long after we leave the page.” —Forrest Hamer [Read More...]
Jacqueline Kudler
Sacred Precinct (2003) & Easing into Dark (2012)
Easing into Dark
“The power and consolations of family resonate throughout all of the poems in Kudler’s moving and deeply reflective new collection. . . . Joy is generational and renewable, making the slowly encroaching ‘dark’ more tolerable and even, at times, something to honor. Mature and wise, replete with the pleasures of the natural world, Easing into Dark is a volume to savor again and again. —David St. John [Read More...]
