Sixteen Rivers Presents: The 2024 authors

Christina Lloyd, Murray Silverstein, and Alice Templeton—will be reading their poetry and discussing the topic of “Lineages” on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 3:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).

Readings for 2024 Books

April 10, Wednesday, Readers’ Books, 7 p.m. 103 East Napa St., Sonoma Alice Templeton, Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd April 14, Sunday, Book Passage, 4 p.m. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd, Alice Templeton April 20, Saturday, Beat Museum, 7 p.m. 540 Broadway, San Francisco Patrick Cahill (with others) May 5, Bazaar…Read More

Publish with Sixteen Rivers Press

Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2024, and February 1, 2025. We look forward to reading your work.

Poems from In Search of Landscape by Helen Wickes

All Must Go for Sale Real Cheap One guy’s work from fifty years back, these unframed watercolors of a white farmhouse, here gabled, here by the sea, next, on a mesa, or in a valley– at least a hundred of the same house– assaulted by weather, birds, eucalyptus; this one with purple wisteria almost lets…Read More

Poems from World as You Left It by Helen Wickes

Listening to Seamus Heaney Read His Translation of Beowulf While at the Gym on the Elliptical Machine Quite Early on a Monday Morning ~ by Helen Wickes The badass dragon’s done for, collapsed, out of form, out of life, a grand deflation. The tatted homey next over, huge headphones, loud on his cell; I evil-eye…Read More