Lee Herrick’s Poem “Courage” from “A Courage of Poets”
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick wrote a poem, “Courage,” occasioned by the Sixteen Rivers Press-sponsored gathering “A Courage of Poets” at the Sacramento Capitol Building on February 6, 2026. The gathering honored and remembered people who have been killed by ICE. Courage by Lee Herrick I almost stopped believing in the ocean. Imagine…Read More
Patrick Cahill’s poem “Fable” nominated for Pushcart Prize
Patrick Cahill’s poem “Fable” from his 2025 poetry collection If we are the forest the animals dream (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2025) has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Fable El puente es tuyo This is the way you enter the place why because the footbridge is yours why…Read More
Poems from Sacred Precinct by Jacqueline Kudler
Another Kind of Crazy Just reaching to open the door of Starbucks when he pushes out in a burst of hurry—flash of a man, fleshy and bald-pated, face florid, single-purposed, and just as I calculate the odds of what kind of crazy—just run-of-the mill New York City kind or some sub-variety of dangerous crazy, he…Read More
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
Poems from The Opposite of Clairvoyance by Gillian Wegener
Reflection So you have trouble shifting, have trouble, are troubled, you can’t quite manage how to make the leap, even if it is not a leap really, but just a step, or not even that, maybe a sitting up rather than a lying down. Yes, if you have trouble because you imagined her face so…Read More