Youth Poetry Contest Winners

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our first Youth Poetry Contest. This nationally advertised contest for teen poets opened with a call for submissions on August 4, 2021. The contest was limited to 100 entrants. Ninety-seven teens, from 15 states and the District of Columbia, entered. Thanks to an…Read More

Sixteen Rivers Press Pushcart Nominations

Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to have nominated two poems published by us in 2021 for Pushcart Prize: Stella Beratlis’s “Prayer for You on the Way to Wherever You’re Going,” from her book, Dust Bowl Venus Dane Cervine’s “In My Dreams,” from his book, The World is God’s Language. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the…Read More

New press members Matthew Monte & Joseph Zaccardi

Sixteen Rivers Press is happy to introduce our new members, whose books will appear in 2023: Matthew Monte and Joseph Zaccardi. Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, music reviews, journalism, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The…Read More

Sixteen Rivers Presents reading on Sep. 26 featuring Kim Shuck and Denise Low

Please join us for a special reading on Sunday, September 26th, 3 PM, in the Sacred Hoop Garden of the Northbrae Community Church. In the shadow of the current crises of our society, we seek surcease from the transmitted wisdom of the people who lived on this continent before European Civilization arrived. Two poets with indigenous…Read More

NCBA in Poetry Translation goes to PLAGIOS/ PLAGIARISMS Vol. 1

Congratulations to Terry Ehret, Nancy J. Morales, and John Johnson, who won the NCBA this afternoon for Poetry in Translation for their work on PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL I by Ulalume González de Leόn. What an honor to be chosen among such a strong field of nominees. Watch the ceremony on YouTube.