Tiller North Named Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Poetry

Sixteen Rivers is pleased to announce that Tiller North by Rosa Lane has been named as a finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Tiller North is one among 20 other finalists including works from such publishers as Alice James Books, University of Iowa Press, Houghton Mifflin, Four Way Books,…Read More

Fall Fundraiser with W. S. Di Piero and Ellen Bass

SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS INVITES YOU TO OUR FALL FUNDRAISER & GARDEN PARTY Join us at a private home in Berkeley at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 8, 2016, for an afternoon of wine, hors d’oeuvres, and readings by two acclaimed poets: ELLEN BASS AND W. S. DI PIERO Tickets: $25 (Rivulet), $50 (Brook), $75 (Stream),…Read More

Sixteen Rivers Welcomes Beth Spencer

Sixteen Rivers is delighted to welcome Beth Spencer, whose poetry collection will be published in 2018. Beth brings with her years of editorial and design expertise, having run Bear Star Press since 1996, editing, designing and publishing books by poets from the Mountain and Pacific regions. Beth lived in the Bay Area for many years…Read More

Alkali Sink nominee for Northern California Book Award

Alkali Sink by Stella Beratlis has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry  published in 2015. Dan Bellm, whose book Practice was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2009 is a  nominee in Poetry in Translation for his translation of Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue by Jorge Esquinca (Unicorn Press). The awards ceremony will be held…Read More

Helen Wickes at Moe’s Books: January 21, 2016

Helen Wickes, author of World as You Left It, will read with Dan Bellm at Moe’s Books  on Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 7:30.