Beverly Burch wins 2018 John Ciardi Poetry Prize

Beverly Burch, whose collection How a Mirage Works was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2014, has won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Latter Days of Eve, will be published by BkMk Press in 2019.

NEW 2018 ANTHOLOGY

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states, high schools and nursing homes, big cities and small towns—with the voices of poets from other countries and other times. From Virgil and Dante…Read More

2018 Publications Available

We’re proud to announce our 2018 publications, Lynne Knight’s The Language of Forgetting and Beth Spencer’s The Cloud Museum.  Early in the fall of 2018, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience.

Rosa Lane wins 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize

Rosa Lane, whose first collection Tiller North was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, has won the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Chouteau’s Chalk, was selected by judge Magdalena Zurawski and will be published by University of Georgia Press in February 2019.

Review of Murray Silverstein’s Master of Leaves

Review of Murray Silverstein’s Master of Leaves, from the Reader’s Review, Winter 2010

A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg’s All Night in the New Country reviewed in Weave Magazine

A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg’s All Night in the New Country was reviewed by Mindy Kronenberg, in Weave Magazine