
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
WHY LOVE AND WHY LOVE NOW: Eliot Schain, Erin Rodoni, and Ken Hass
Featuring Sixteen Rivers Press members Eliot Schain and Erin Rodoni reading with Ken Hass on Sunday, September 27, 2020, 3 PM. Please join Poetry Flash for a reading of love poems, during which the poets will use their own works to traverse the territory of that huge word and discuss how “love” in this dark…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
Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12
Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León’s PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales. Poet, essayist, and translator Ulalume González de León believed that “Everything has already been said,” and, thus, that each…Read More
Book launch & reading April 26, 2020
Please Join Us for a Sixteen Rivers Zoom Book Launch and Reading Celebrating the New Publications for 2020 Sunday April 26 at 3 PM Pacific Time With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, our April and May events to launch our new publications have been shifted to an online format.We hope you will join us for a…Read More
Fixel reading tonight at Moe’s
Tonight, Thursday Feb 27: Celebration and book launch for THE COLLECTED POETRY & PROSE OF LAWRENCE FIXEL, by the late San Francisco poet, edited and with an introduction by GERALD FLEMING. Also appearing and presenting Lawrence Fixel’s work at this event will be poets JACK MARSHALL, EDWARD MYCUE, JO-ANNE ROSEN, and poet-painter PATTI TRIMBLE, painter…Read More