Camille Norton 2019 collection nominee for Northern California Book Award

Congratulations to Camille Norton, whose 2019 publication A Folio for the Dark, was a nominee for the Northern California Book Award. The Northern California Book Awards are presented and sponsored by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, PEN West (PEN America), Mechanics’ Institute Library, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter, San Francisco Public Library, Friends…Read More

Second Tuesday Reading: Eliot Schain & Patrick Cahill

Join host Stella Beratlis in our monthly reading + open mic series. This month we are excited to feature Eliot Schain, author of THE DISTANT SOUND and Patrick Cahill, author of THE MACHINERY OF SLEEP. Open mic follows. Patrick Cahill’s prose and poems have appeared in over forty journals, including TriQuarterly, Volt, Poets Eleven, the…Read More

October fundraiser features Matthew Zapruder & Prageeta Sharma

Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 pm PDT Our annual fundraiser will feature Matthew Zapruder and Prageeta Sharma reading their work to celebrate our 21 years of publishing fine books of poetry by Northern California poets. We hope you will join us and consider a donation in support of our continuing work.   Matthew Zapruder is…Read More

Erin Rodoni’s third collection wins award

Erin Rodoni, whose first collection Body, in Good Light was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2017, has recently won the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize for her third manuscript. And if the Woods Carry You is forthcoming in fall 2021. Congratulations, Erin!  

The Distant Sound featured

Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).