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# Sixteen Rivers Press

A Northern California Poetry Collective

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- [News & Events](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-events) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [Reading and Book Events for Sixteen Rivers Press: December 2025 - January 2026](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/reading-and-book-events-for-sixteen-rivers-press-november-2025-january-2026) - Thursday, January 8, 2026, 7 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records Readers: Patrick Cahill, Terry Ehret, Moira Magneson, Nancy Morales Location: 653 Chenery St., San Francisco, CA Saturday, January 24, 2026, 3 to 5 pm Sixteen Rivers Presents Readers: James Cagney and Glenn Ingersoll Location: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA Tuesday,
- [Patrick Cahill's poem "Fable" nominated for Pushcart Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/patrick-cahills-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
- [2025 Call for Submissions for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2025-call-for-submissions-for-full-length-poetry-manuscripts) - Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Collective invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2025 and February 1, 2026. Sixteen Rivers values diversity. We encourage poets of color, young poets, and LGBTQ poets to submit. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s
- [Poetry Flash Event: Rosa Lane and Camille Norton reading at the Art House Gallery in Berkeley on November 20, 2025 at 7 pm](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/poetry-flash-event-rosa-lane-and-camille-norton-reading-at-the-art-house-gallery-in-berkeley-on-november-20-2025-at-7-pm)
- [Reading and Book Events for Sixteen Rivers Press: September - November 2025](https://sixteenrivers.org/uncategorized/reading-and-book-events-for-sixteen-rivers-press-september-november-2025) - Saturday, November 1, 3 to 5 pm Sixteen Rivers Presents A Celebration of Poetry Flash Featured speakers: Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman Readers: Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg Location: Northbrae Community Church, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA Sunday, October 19, 2 to 5 pm Sixteen Rivers Fall Fundraiser Readers: Kim Addonizio, D. A. Powell Location: Northbrae Community
- [Sixteen Rivers Presents: A Celebration of Poetry Flash - November 1, 2025](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/sixteen-rivers-presents-a-celebration-of-poetry-flash-november-1-2025) - Join Sixteen Rivers Press in celebrating Poetry Flash and editors Joyce Jenkins and Richard Silberg at Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley on Saturday, November 1, 3 - 5 PM. Featuring tributes from Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass. Refreshments provided.
- [Welcoming our newest members: Janet Jennings and Greg Mahrer](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/welcoming-our-newest-members-janet-jennings-and-greg-mahrer) - We are very pleased to introduce our two newest members, Janet Jennings and Gregory Mahrer. Janet Jennings writes: “I grew up in a Midwestern chocolate-making family. In my teens, I worked summers at the factory, amid the smell of roasting cocoa beans, where I packed twenty-five-pound boxes of chocolate drops and learned to drive a
- [Sixteen Rivers Press Fall Fundraiser & 26th Anniversary Celebration 2025](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/sixteen-rivers-press-fall-fundraiser-26th-anniversery-celebration-2025) - The Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press will feature readings by Kim Addonizio and D. A. Powell, plus a silent auction. Admission is free, and donations are welcomed. Sunday, Oct. 19, 2:00 - 5:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA). To reserve a spot, and/or make a donation, go to Eventbrite.
- [Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press](https://sixteenrivers.org/uncategorized/fall-fundraiser-for-sixteen-rivers-press) - The Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press will feature readings by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, plus a silent auction. Admission is free, and donations are welcomed. Sunday, Oct. 20, 2:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).
- [Accolades](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/accolades) - Read the review by Alexa Mergen of The Place That Inhabits Us in Rattle's online blog (1/25/11). Jeanne Wagner has won the $1,000 Inkwell Award, sponsored by Manhattanville College and judged by Mark Doty. Christina Hutchins is the winner of the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. "Radiantly We Inhabit the Air" will be published in January 2011.
- [Chapbook Contest Winner](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/chapbook-contest-winner) - Congratulations to Judy Halebsky, the winner of the Sixteen Rivers chapbook contest with her manuscript Space, Gap, Interval, Distance. Our judge, Forrest Hamer, made the final selection from a strong list of entries. Judy’s first book, Sky=Empty, won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize and was published last year. Her chapbook will be published in spring, 2012.
- [Our Newest Author](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/our-newest-author) - Congratulations to Barbara Swift Brauer whose manuscript was selected as the winner of our 2011 Manuscript Competition. Her book will be published in spring of 2013 along with a new collection by current Sixteen Rivers poet, Gerald Fleming. Thank you to all the poets who have trusted us with their work, and congratulations again to Barbara.
- [New Publication](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/new-publication) - Terry Ehret's new book Night Sky Journey will be published by Kelly's Cove Press in September, 2011. It is one of six books selected to launch an annual series of new work and classic reprints of California writers and artists. Books may be ordered through the website, www.kellyscovepress.com (live September, 2011) or by calling 510-338-3480.
- [Sixteen Rivers Spring Newsletter](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/sixteen-rivers-spring-newsletter) - Spring is here and so are two new books from Sixteen Rivers Press. We are excited to share these new titles with you, and to let you know about upcoming readings and events. We hope to see you at one or more readings and to include you in the celebrations of our new books! Read
- [Summer Is Upon Us](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/summer-is-upon-us) - Summer is upon us and great things are afoot at Sixteen Rivers Press! We have new books from our members, a new chapbook from our Poets Under Forty series, and our first translation project, all in the pipeline working their way toward you, our readers. We couldn’t be more excited. Read on to learn the
- [Happy New Year](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/happy-new-year) - Sixteen Rivers Press wishes you a very happy new year, and we hope to do our part to fill your year with poetry. In this edition of our newsletter, you’ll learn about upcoming book releases, readings, submission deadlines, and all things Sixteen Rivers, ending with a poem by Gerald Fleming from his 2005 book Swimmer
- [I Know (Je Sais) Reviewed on Huffington Post](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2214) - The Huffington Post reviews Sixteen Rivers’ latest full-length book today, Lynne Knight’s translation of Ito Naga’s I Know (Je Sais). “Aphoristic and Zen-koan-like, I Know is a collection of 469 observations on life and the universe by a scientist whose eye for detail is keen and whose wit is ever-present.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kudler/review-i-know-je-sais_b_4097604.html
- [Lynne Knight's Interview with Ito Naga](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/lynne-knights-interview-with-ito-naga) - The following interview in English with Ito Naga was conducted in English by e-mail in May 2013. Could you talk a little bit about how Je sais came into being? I had been looking for Georges Pérec’s Je me souviens for quite some time. I’d only heard of it and I thought it was an
- [Sixteen Rivers Press co-founder Carolyn Miller Publication Announcements](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2271) - Sixteen Rivers Press co-founder Carolyn Miller has an essay, "Always," in the November issue of The Sun. Her college memoir, "Arts and Science," published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Missouri Review, is listed as a Notable Essay in Best Essays 2013.
- [Read Nina Lindsay's poem “The Two Worlds” in Blue Fifth Review](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2280) - Read Nina Lindsay's poem, “The Two Worlds,” in Blue Fifth Review.
- [Helen Wickes' poem "Strategies in Pink" nominated for a Pushcart Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2286) - Helen Wickes' poem "Strategies in Pink" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- [Carolyn Miller's essay featured on Poetry Flash](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2355) - Carolyn Miller's essay Fruit Focaccia: Breakfast With Susan, an homage to Susan Sibbet (1942-2013), was featured on Poetry Flash.
- [Helen Wickes has three poems published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2384) - Helen Wickes has three poems, "Harrow,"Still Life on the Road to Los Ojos," and "The Vagrant Spirit," published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review.
- [Helen Wickes' poem](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/helen-wickes-poem) - "In This Afterlife" was featured in Poetry Daily, on Friday April 17.
- [New Review of Stella Beratlis' Alkali Sink](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/new-review-of-stella-bertlis-alkali-sink) - Michael Dennis' review of Alkali Sink was featured in Today's Book of Poetry.
- [Anthology Forthcoming in September 2018](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/forthcoming-in-september-2018) - Early this fall, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. Born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, this anthology 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
- [The Distant Sound featured](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/the-distant-sound-featured) - Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).
- [WHY LOVE AND WHY LOVE NOW: Eliot Schain, Erin Rodoni, and Ken Hass](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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
- [Helen Wickes at Moe's Books: January 21, 2016](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/helen-wickes-at-moes-books) - 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.
- [Sixteen Rivers Showcase at Litquake San Rafael, October 11, 2015](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/oct-11-sixteen-rivers-showcase-at-litquake-san-rafael) - Join Gerald Fleming, Jacqueline Kudler, Lisa Erin Robertson, and Stella Beratlis on October 11, 2015 at West End Café from 4:30 to 5:45 for a Sixteen Rivers Press Showcase. 1131 4th St., San Rafael, CA. Free!
- [Stella Beratlis & Christina Hutchins at Moe's, October 8, 2015](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/stella-beratlis-christina-hutchins-at-moes) - Thursday, October 8, 2015 7:30 PM 9:00 PM Poetry Flash presents Christina Hutchins and Stella Beratlis at Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley; (510) 849-2087.
- [16R Anniversary Party](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/16r-anniversary-party) - SAVE THE DATE! Sixteen Rivers Press Invites You to A Poetry Reading & Anniversary Party To celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of our founding, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a party featuring a reading by two acclaimed poets at a private home in the East Bay. Tickets are priced at four levels, beginning
- [Beratlis, Wickes, and Robertson at La Luz de Jesus](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/beratlis-wickes-and-robertson-at-la-luz-de-jesus-august-1) - Join Stella Beratlis, Helen Wickes, and Lisa Erin Robertson at a shindig celebrating the birthdays of three Angelenos active in the music and art worlds. Party opens with a set of vintage country and hillbilly sounds from musician Skip Heller, followed by readings by Beratlis, Wickes, and Robertson at 8:00 sharp. The evening concludes with
- [Sixteen Rivers Welcomes Beth Spencer](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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
- [Fall Fundraiser with W. S. Di Piero and Ellen Bass](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/save-the-date-for-annual-benefit-reading-oct-8) - 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),
- [Terry Ehret in September](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2866) - Terry will be performing another music and poetry collaboration with her daughter Caitlin Moe on Sunday, September 6 at the Redwood Cafe in Cotati. Terry and Caitlin will join two fellow Sonoma County Poets Laureate, Gwynne O'Gara and Mike Tuggle. The program runs 5-7 PM, but come early or stay late to enjoy Redwood Cafe's great food and brews. Location:
- [Our Upcoming Benefit](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/our-upcoming-benefit) - We are excited about our annual benefit, to be held this year on October 22. Our reader is the internationally acclaimed poet Eavan Boland, author of New Collected Poems (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009) and winner of a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, among other honors. Boland, considered one of the most important contemporary Irish poets, is
- [Announcing the 2012 Sixteen Rivers Press Chapbook Contest for Poets Under Forty](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/announcing-the-2012-sixteen-rivers-press-chapbook-contest-for-poets-under-forty) - Sixteen Rivers Press is seeking submissions for a chapbook by a poet under forty years of age, to be published in Spring 2013. All styles and forms are welcome. The winner will receive $500 and 25 free copies of the chapbook. The winner will not be required to become a member of the collective, though
- [Submission Deadline Extension!!!](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/submission-deadline-extension) - Sixteen Rivers Press is excited to announce that the deadline for submissions for the 2013 manuscript competition has been extended! Manuscripts will now be accepted up to March 1, 2013 both online and through regular mail. All other submission guidelines still apply. Please see our complete guidelines at https://sixteenrivers.org/wordpress/submit-work/. We very much hope to read your work.
- [Our Newest Books](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/our-newest-books) - Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the release of our two newest books: Barbara Swift Brauer’s At Ease in the Borrowed World and Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer. We are proud of both these collections and know that you will want to attend one of the many readings and buy your own copies. Of Brauer’s
- [Autumn News](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/autumn-news) - The members of Sixteen Rivers Press are deeply saddened by the recent death of our founding member, Susan Sibbet. Not only was Susan a talented poet, but she was a passionate advocate for poetry as well. A long-time board member of California Poets in the Schools, Susan worked tirelessly to send poets and poetry into
- [Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted Pushcart nominations](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2274) - Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted the following Pushcart nominations: “Crucifixion, Kinetic,” and “Passencore,” from Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer, and “Love Poem,” and “Arrival,” from Miriam Bird Greenberg’s All night in the new country, and “The Small Knock,” and “Divesture” from Barbara Swift Brauer’s At Ease in the Borrowed World.
- [Welcome Erin Rodoni, Sixteen Rivers' Newest Poet](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/welcome-erin-rodoni-sixteen-rivers-newest-poet) - Erin Rodoni is a third generation Point Reyes native, but was born with a severe case of wanderlust and has found many temporary homes all over the world. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She was the recipient of a 2013 Intro Journals Award from the Association of
- [Book launch & reading April 26, 2020](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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
- [Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/second-tuesday-poetry-ulalume-gonzalez-de-leon-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
- [New press members Matthew Monte & Joseph Zaccardi](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/newmembers2021) - Sixteen Rivers Press is happy to introduce our new members, whose books will appear in 2023: Matthew Monte and Joseph Zaccardi. Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, music reviews, journalism, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The
- [Sixteen Rivers Press Pushcart Nominations](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/sixteen-rivers-press-pushcart-nominations) - Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to have nominated two poems published by us in 2021 for Pushcart Prize: Stella Beratlis’s “Prayer for You on the Way to Wherever You’re Going,” from her book, Dust Bowl Venus Dane Cervine’s “In My Dreams,” from his book, The World is God’s Language. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the
- [Youth Poetry Contest Winners](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/youth-poetry-contest-winners) - Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our first Youth Poetry Contest. This nationally advertised contest for teen poets opened with a call for submissions on August 4, 2021. The contest was limited to 100 entrants. Ninety-seven teens, from 15 states and the District of Columbia, entered. Thanks to an
- [Annual Call for Submissions: November 1, 2023 - February 1, 2024](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/publish-with-sixteen-rivers-press) - Call for Submissions Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2023 and February 1, 2024. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website during Summer 2024. Selected manuscripts will be
- [Welcoming Our Newest Member, Lenore Myers](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/welcoming-our-newest-member-lenore-myers) - Lenore Myers’s poems and essays can be found in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Southern Indiana Review, LIT, and One, among other literary journals. Her chapbook, Regards to Balthus, was published in 2023 by Seven Kitchens Press. She teaches English as a Second Language at the Napa Adult School and is a faculty writing tutor and ESL
- [Miriam Bird Greenberg selected for Best New Poets 2014](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/miriam-bird-greenberg-selected-for-best-new-poets-2014) - Miriam Bird Greenberg, whose collection All night in the new country was the 2012 winner of the Sixteen Rivers Poets-Under-40-Chapbook contest, will be included in the Best New Poets 2014 collection. Her poem "Shortness of Breath," which originally appeared in The Paris-American, will appear in this collection of fifty emerging poets, selected by Dorianne Laux. Best New Poets 2014 will be published in November 2014;
- [Listen to](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/listen-to) - Beverly Burch read from How a Mirage Works, on the KUSP podcast.
- [Helen Wickes' poem "Secret Lives of Trees" featured in Sweet: A Literary Confection](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2673) - Helen Wickes' poem, "Secret Lives of Trees," was featured in Sweet: A Literary Confection, Issue 7.2.
- [Read Gerald Fleming's new work in Mudlark No. 5](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2675) - Read Gerald Fleming's new work in Mudlark No. 5
- [Rosa Lane Wins 38th Annual New Millennium Prize for Poetry](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2677) - Rosa Lane won the 38th Annual New Millennium prize for poetry for her poem "Father."
- [Nina Lindsay's Poems](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/nina-lindsays-poems) - are published in issue 2 of KYSO: Flash
- [Carolyn Miller's Work](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/carolyn-millers-work) - is published in the KYSO Flash Anthology.
- [Welcome Erin Rodoni, new Sixteen Rivers Press member](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/welcome-erin-rodoni-new-sixteen-rivers-press-member) - Welcome to Point Reyes poet Erin Rodoni, whose manuscript Rotating Exhibit will be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2017. Rodoni's manuscript was chosen by the press from a field of very strong finalists. We welcome her to the press.
- [Arts and Letters Contest Winner, Jeanne Wagner](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/arts-and-letters-contest-winner-jeanne-wagner) - Jeanne Wagner, author of In The Body of Our Lives, won the Arts and Letters, Rumi Prize in Poetry contest!
- [Wherewithal 1st Annual Poetry Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/wherewithal-1st-annual-poetry-prize) - Congratulations to Gillian Wegener, who won the 1st annual poetry prize awarded by Wherewithal, for her poem "A Boy Comes Toward You."
- [Modesto Bee Article About Modesto Poet Laureate Gillian Wegener](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/modesto-bee-article-about-modesto-poet-laureate-gillian-wegener) - In June of 2015, an article about Gillian Wegener, poet laureate of Modesto, appeared in the Modesto Bee.
- [Zocalo Public Square 2015 Poetry Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/zocalo-public-square-2015-poetry-prize) - Congratulations to Gillian Wegener, whose poem "The Old Mill Cafe" won the Zocalo Public Square 2015 Poetry Prize for a poem of place.
- [Call for submissions](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/call-for-submissions) - Our submission period opens November 1. Please see our Submit Work page for complete guidelines.
- [Nina Lindsay's work appears in two journals](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/nina-lindsays-work-appears-in-two-journals) - Nina Lindsay, author of Today's Special Dish (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Because, has recent work in two journals online: The Cortland Review and Serving House Journal.
- [Pushcart Nominations from the press and for press members](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/pushcart-nominations-from-the-press-and-for-press-members) - Sixteen Rivers is proud to nominate poems from our 2015 publications for the Pushcart Prize. From Stella Beratlis's ALKALI SINK, "Koda Farms, South Dos Palos" and "Patterson Pass." From Lisa Erin Robertson's THE ORBIT OF KNOWN OBJECTS, "Engagement" and "The Mineral Kingdom." And from Helen Wickes's WORLD AS YOU LEFT IT, "North" and "Daedalus." Meanwhile,
- [Alkali Sink nominee for Northern California Book Award](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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
- [Tiller North Named Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Poetry](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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,
- [Tiller North a winner in the Indie Excellent Award](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/tiller-north-a-winner-in-the-indie-excellent-award) - Tiller North by Rosa Lane was selected as the winner of the poetry category in the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Congratulations, Rosa! A list of winners and finalists can be found at NIEA. See Rosa Lane's author page.
- [Sixteen Rivers Press Announces Our Newest Authors](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/congratulations-to-2017-competition-winners-and-new-press-members) - Sixteen Rivers Press is delighted to welcome new author-members Camille Norton and Maya Khosla, whose poetry collections will be published in 2019, along with Rain, Like a Thief, a second collection by press member Barbara Swift Brauer. Norton’s manuscript—A Folio for the Dark—and Khosla’s—Unknown World on Fire—were chosen in our 2016–17 open-submission call for full-length manuscripts
- [This Sweet Haphazard reviewed in New Pages](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/this-sweet-haphazard-reviewed-in-new-pages) - Gillian Wegener's collection, This Sweet Haphazard, published in April of this year, was reviewed in New Pages by Daniel Klawitter. For more information about This Sweet Haphazard, please see Wegener's author page.
- [Submission Period Opens](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/submission-period-opens) - We invite authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2018, and February 1, 2019. All manuscripts will be read blind, and typically one or two manuscripts are selected for publication. It is possible no manuscript will be chosen in any given year. The winner/s will be announced on the press’s website in early
- [2019 Fundraising Campaign](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/support-independent-poetry-press) - Like most independent poetry presses, we can't publish without your support. Because you believe in the power of words, please consider contributing to Sixteen Rivers Press. Projects include three collections in 2020 and two in 2021. Specifically, planned books in 2020 include titles by Patrick Cahill, Eliot Schain, and a translation of Ulalume González de Leόn's
- [NEW 2018 ANTHOLOGY](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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
- [The Architecture of Poetry: Murray Silverstein at Inaugural Studio One Reading Series](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/the-architecture-of-poetry-murray-silverstein-at-inaugural-studio-one-reading-series) - On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Murray Silverstein will participate in a benefit for Studio One. In the early afternoon, Silverstein will give a talk on the connection between poetry and architecture. Later that day, he will read with Dora Malech in a reading/reception. More information and ticket purchase at http://studioonereadingseries.blogspot.com/2014/11/saturday-january-10-benefit-reading.html.
- [America, We Call Your Name Youth Poetry Reading](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/america-we-call-your-name-youth-poetry-reading) - Join us to hear new poems of resistance and resilience by the six winners of the Sixteen Rivers Press Youth Poetry Contest! Six grand-prize winners of our national contest for teen poets will read their poems, plus the poems from our anthology, America, We Call Your Name, that inspired their work. Please register to receive
- [Maya Khosla's All the Fires of Wind and Light selected for 2020 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/maya-khoslas-all-the-fires-of-wind-and-light-selected-for-2020-pen-oakland-josephine-miles-award) - PEN Oakland, called "The Blue Collar PEN" by The New York Times, is honoring Maya Khosla's All the Fires of Wind and Light with the Josephine Miles Literary Award. PEN Oakland's annual awards ceremony is scheduled to take place online via the Oakland Public Library Rockridge Branch on December 5, 2020, from 2PM-5PM PST. The
- [Happy Publication Day](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/happy-publication-day) - We are proud to announce our 2020 subscription titles: The Machinery of Sleep by Patrick Cahill, The Distant Sound by Eliot Schain, and Plagios/Plagiarisms by Ulalume González de León. The publication date for all three is April 2, 2020. Subscribers who order our April releases each year are given a special subscription rate, which includes shipping, handling, and tax. The 2020
- [2019 Publications Available](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2019-publications-available) - We're proud to announce our 2019 publications, Barbara Swift Brauer’s Rain, Like a Thief, Maya Khosla’s All the Fires of Wind and Light and Camille Norton's, A Folio for the Dark.
- ["Winter, San Geronimo" from Rain, Like a Thief by Barbara Swift Brauer](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/winter-san-geronimo-by-barbara-swift-brauer) - Winter, San Geronimo They are walking dry footed on the bottom of Nicasio Reservoir. Rocks in the silent creek jut like the ribs of a starving horse. The fish ladder is a skeleton of concrete. The salmon do not come. These short winter days, the sun clicks on like a furnace,
- [2018 Publications Available](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2018-publications-sold-awp) - 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.
- [2021 Books by Dane Cervine and Stella Beratlis](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2021-collections-by-dane-cervine-and-stella-beratlis) - Sixteen Rivers is pleased to announce the April 2021 publication of two collections of poetry: The World Is God's Language by Dane Cervine and Dust Bowl Venus by Stella Beratlis. Both titles are available in our store. You can also become a Friend of Sixteen Rivers Press and receive both titles as part of your
- [Camille Norton 2019 collection nominee for Northern California Book Award](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/camille-norton-2019-collection-nominee-for-northern-california-book-award) - Congratulations to Camille Norton, whose 2019 publication A Folio for the Dark, was a nominee for the Northern California Book Award. The Northern California Book Awards are presented and sponsored by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, PEN West (PEN America), Mechanics' Institute Library, Women's National Book Association-SF Chapter, San Francisco Public Library, Friends
- [NCBA in Poetry Translation goes to PLAGIOS/ PLAGIARISMS Vol. 1](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/ncba-in-poetry-translation-goes-to-plagios-plagiarisms-vol-1) - Congratulations to Terry Ehret, Nancy J. Morales, and John Johnson, who won the NCBA this afternoon for Poetry in Translation for their work on PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL I by Ulalume González de Leόn. What an honor to be chosen among such a strong field of nominees. Watch the ceremony on YouTube.
- [Miriam Bird Greenberg Reading, April 6](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/miriam-bird-greenberg-reading-april6) - Miriam will be reading from her Sixteen Rivers chapbook, in the Poetry Flash series at Diesel Books, Oakland, April 6:
- [Sixteen Rivers at AWP](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2358) - Sixteen Rivers at AWP Wednesday, Feb 26 Jacqueline Kudler will read her selected poems from The Widows' Handbook anthology, on Wednesday night, Feb. 26, 7 PM at Queen Anne Book Company, 1811 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle Friday, Feb 28 Beverly Burch and Terry Ehret will read with members of Arlie Press at AWP in
- [Spring Readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2313) - Lynne Knight and Miriam Bird Greenberg will read at the Barkin' Dog Café, 940 11th Street, Modesto CA 95354, on February 11, 2014 at 6:00 pm. Jacqueline Kudler will read her selected poems from The Widow's Handbook anthology, at the Seattle Queen Anne Book Company, on Wednesday night, Feb. 26, at 7 PM Beverly Burch will read at
- [December Je sais readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/december-je-sais-readings) - On Friday, December 13, 2013, at 7PM, Ito Naga and Lynne Knight will read from I Know (Je sais) at the Berkeley Alliance Française, located at 2004 Woolsey Street, in Berkeley CA 94703 On December December 14, 2013, at 4PM, Ito Naga and Lynne Knight will read from I Know (Je sais) at Book Passage,
- [November Readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/november-readings) - On Sunday, November 24, 2013 from 3 PM to 5 PM, Sixteen Rivers Press poet Barbara Swift Brauer (At Ease in the Borrowed World) will read with prose writer Kaitlyn Gallagher at the MINE Gallery in Fairfax, California, at 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, on Sunday, November 24, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. MINE Gallery,
- ["Changing Forecast" from At Ease in the Borrowed World by Barbara Swift Brauer](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/changing-forecast-by-barbara-swift-brauer) - Changing Forecast Look how the sun has emerged, despite expectations and the wringing of hands. A new warmth rises on the April wind. I am here again at the old crossroads: action at odds with intention. Accomplishment sacrificed to the short-term pleasure of just being here. Is it so wrong to stop and reevaluate the
- [Autumn Readings 2013](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/autumn-readings-2013) - Upcoming Readings: On Sunday, November 24, 2013 from 3 PM to 5 PM, Sixteen Rivers Press poet Barbara Swift Brauer (At Ease in the Borrowed World) will read with prose writer Kaitlyn Gallagher at the MINE Gallery in Fairfax, California, at 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, on Sunday, November 24, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. MINE
- [2022 Publications](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2022-publications) - Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2022, both of which happen to be bilingual collections: Ulalume González de León's Plagios/Plagiarisms Vol. 2, translated by Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales; and Marjorie Agosín’s Beyond the Time of Words/Más allá del tiempo de las palabras, translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman.
- [Announcement: Jacqueline Kudler](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/announcement-jacqueline-kudler) - With great sadness, we announce that Jacqueline Kudler, a founding member of Sixteen Rivers Press, has died at age 89 from complications of ALS. She was a wonderful poet; an ardent and active supporter of the press from its founding up to the time of her death; and a dear, long-time friend and poetry companion
- [Murray Silverstein at Modesto Architecture Festival](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/murray-silverstein-at-modesto-architecture-festival) - Sixteen Rivers poet Murray Silverstein, who is both an architect and a poet, will speak on the relationship between the two at the Modesto Architecture Festival, 3 p.m. on Sept. 13. The event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant from The James Irvine Foundation and co-sponsored by the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center.
- [Submission period now open through Feb. 1, 2021](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/submission-period-opens-nov-1) - We invite authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2020 and February 1, 2021.Selected manuscripts will be scheduled for publication in Spring 2023. Please read our Submission Guidelines for details.
- [Sixteen Rivers Presents reading on Sep. 26 featuring Kim Shuck and Denise Low](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/sixteen-rivers-presents-kim-shuck-and-denise-low) - Please join us for a special reading on Sunday, September 26th, 3 PM, in the Sacred Hoop Garden of the Northbrae Community Church. In the shadow of the current crises of our society, we seek surcease from the transmitted wisdom of the people who lived on this continent before European Civilization arrived. Two poets with indigenous
- [Poems from Sacred Precinct by Jacqueline Kudler](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/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
- [Upcoming Readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/upcoming-readings) - Here is a list of our upcoming readings: Our two newest authors, Jacqueline Kudler (Easing Into Dark ) and Judy Halebsky (Space/Gap/Interval/Distance) will be reading in the following series of events in the Bay Area: April 1, 3 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland. April 10, 6 p.m., The Barkin' Dog Grill, 914
- [In the Body of Our Lives by Jeanne Wagner - 2011](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/new-titles-2011-jeanne-wagner) - Jeanne Wagner’s poetry rides through a landscape both familiar in its humanity and astonishingly new. Her fluid syntax and inventive diction flood into hidden and unexpected fissures of experience and memory. She seems to carve out new spaces where images pour into and out of one another and where metaphors appear like undiscovered species, strange
- [Beverly Burch wins 2018 John Ciardi Poetry Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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 Chapbook by Lynne Knight](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/new-2018-chapbook-by-lynne-knight) - Sixteen Rivers Press poet Lynne Knight, author of The Language of Forgetting, has a new chapbook. The Argument Against Eternity appears in MUDLARK (Never in and never out of print).
- [Press Democrat Article About Sonoma Poet Laureate Maya Khosla](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/press-democrat-article-about-sonoma-poet-laureate-maya-khosla) - In March 2019, an article about Maya Khosla, poet laureate of Sonoma, appeared in the Press Democrat.
- [Pushcart nominees for 2020](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/pushcart-nominees-for-2020) - Sixteen Rivers Press nominated six poems for the 2020 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XIX: From A Folio for the Dark by Camille Norton: “Quaker Light” and “The Black Dog.” From All the Fires of Wind and Light by Maya Khosla, “Synchronicity” and “The Sierra: A History.” From Barbara Swift Brauer’s Rain, Like
- [Sixteen Rivers Press announces its newest member](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/sixteen-rivers-press-announces-its-newest-member) - Welcome to new press member Dane Cervine, whose manuscript was selected by the press as a finalist in the 2018/2019 submission cycle. Dane Cervine’s recent books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag), and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii, a cross-genre work of Zen
- [Dane Cervine's work in Monterey Poetry Review](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/dane-cervines-work-in-monterey-poetry-review) - Three of the prose poems that will appear in Dane's forthcoming collection, The World Is God’s Language, appear in the Spring 2020 issue of Monterey Poetry Review. Dane's full-length collection will be published in early April 2021.
- [Erin Rodoni's third collection wins award](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/erin-rodonis-thired-collection-wins-award) - Erin Rodoni, whose first collection Body, in Good Light was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2017, has recently won the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize for her third manuscript. And if the Woods Carry You is forthcoming in fall 2021. Congratulations, Erin!
- [The Art of Translation, Nov 6, 2022 at Dominican University](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/7318-2) - Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation about poetry and translation with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Matthew Zapruder, Terry Ehret, Marjorie Agosin, Celeste Kostopoulos-Cooperman, and Nancy Morales. Go to our Events page and sign up on Eventbrite.
- [The Stranger Dissolves by Christina Hutchins - 2011](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/new-titles-2011-christina-hutchins) - Christina Hutchins’ The Stranger Dissolves is an exquisite debut volume. This superb collection is elegant, impassioned, and consistently wise in its reckonings. Few poets so carefully embody the mind’s oscillations during reflection, and the beauty of Christina Hutchins’ poems is simply beyond measure. More than any first collection I know, The Stranger Dissolves melds both mind (intelligence and thought)
- [A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg's All Night in the New Country reviewed in Weave Magazine](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/2351) - A Thresher of Dust and Dreams: Miriam Bird Greenberg's All Night in the New Country was reviewed by Mindy Kronenberg, in Weave Magazine
- [Save the Date!](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/save-the-date) - Sixteen Rivers is pleased to announce that acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland will read at our annual benefit on October 22, 2011. The benefit will be held at a beautiful private home in San Rafael. If you are interested in receiving an invitation, please send us an email at info@sixteenrivers.org and we'll be happy to send you
- [Our Annual Benefit](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/our-annual-benefit) - Sixteen Rivers Press will host its annual benefit reading the evening of November 17, 2012 at a beautiful home in San Rafael. The featured reader is esteemed poet Jane Hirshfield. If you would like an invitation, please contact us at info@sixteenrivers.org. Help support our independent poetry press, and join us for what we know will
- [Please Join Us for Our 2013 Readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/please-join-us-for-our-2013-readings) - Saturday, April 6, 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, Tel: (415) 927-0960 Sunday, April 7, 5 p.m. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Redwood Hwy., Cotati, Tel: (707) 795-7868 Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, Tel: (510) 704-8222 Friday, April 19, 7 p.m. Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street,
- [Sixteen Rivers Press Annual Fundraiser](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2240) - Save the Date! SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS AT FIFTEEN INVITES YOU TO A GARDEN PARTY To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a garden party featuring a reading by honored poet Kay Ryan, with light refreshments and Prosecco served on the grounds of a Marin County estate. Tickets are priced at four
- [2014 Readings, Beverly Burch and Murray Silverstein](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2014-readings-beverly-burch-and-murray-silverstein) - Be sure to check out our next reading series! Beverly Burch and Murray Silverstein will be reading from their new books, "How a Mirage Works," and "Master of Leaves." Thursday, April 3, 7:30 P.M. Mrs Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 704-8222 Tuesday, April 8, 6 P.M. The Barkin' Dog Grill, 940 Eleventh Street,
- [Albany Library Reading, February 10 2015](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2679) - Beverly Burch and Miriam Bird Greenberg will be reading at the Albany Library, at 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA, on Tuesday evening, February 10 at 7pm. Please join us as an open reading follows.
- [2015 Readings](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2015-readings) - April 2015 Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes Saturday, April 18, 4 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera • (415) 927-0960 Lynne Knight with Lola Haskins for Poetry Flash Thursday, April 23 Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley • (510) 849-2087 Stella Beratlis, Lisa Robertson, and Helen Wickes Saturday, April 25, 2 p.m.
- [Jeanne Wagner at Second Sunday Poetry Series](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/jeanne-wagner-at-second-sunday-poetry-series) - Jeanne Wagner, author of In the Body of Our Lives (2011, Sixteen Rivers Press), is reading with Pam Uschiak at the Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series on Sunday, June 14. Open mic to follow. 3-5 p.m., Valona Delicatessen & Café, 1323 Pomona St, Crockett.
- [Murray Silverstein June 12 at Café Nefeli](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/murray-silverstein-june-12-at-cafe-nefeli) - Murray Silverstein and Sheila Davies Sumner will read at 7 pm on Friday, June 12th, at Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, a little north of Hearst, in Berkeley, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading.
- [Event: Covered in Birds (June 6, 2015)](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/2857) - On June 6, Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret was one of nine Sonoma County poets who collaborated with the nine musicians of the jazz ensemble Take Jack for an evening of poetry and music. The sold-out event, called "Covered in Birds," was a benefit to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Laguna de Santa Rosa Environmental
- [Benefit party with Zapruder and Young supports future books](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/benefit-party-2015) - Photos from our benefit party, which was held Saturday, October 17, 2015.
- [Rosa Lane wins 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/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.
- [Save the Date: 20th Anniversary Party Nov. 3](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/save-the-date-20th-anniversary-party-nov-3) - Sixteen Rivers Press wants you to help us celebrate our 20th anniversary in the tradition of the literary salon: a reading of press authors from the past 20 years at the Mill Valley Golf Clubhouse featuring refreshments, hors d'oeuvres, and silent auction. November 3, 2019, from 2-5 p.m. Mark your calendars now and watch this
- [Kickoff of new series at The Hidden Cafe postponed](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/news-reading-series-at-the-hidden-cafe-kicks-off-mar-29) - In the interest of practicing voluntary social isolation, we're postponing this event to a later date, TBD. Sixteen Rivers Presents At The Hidden Cafe A POETRY READING WITH MATTHEW ZAPRUDER AND ERIN RODONI Sunday, March 29th 2020, 3:30-5:00, free. The Hidden Cafe, 1250 Addison St., Berkeley, in Strawberry Creek Park. Join us for the kickoff
- [Fixel reading tonight at Moe's](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/fixel-reading-tonight-at-moes) - 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
- [Plagios/Plagiarisms featured in Bohemian](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/plagios-plagiarisms-featured-in-bohemian) - The translation project Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume One, by Ulalume Gonzalez de Leon, is featured in today's Bohemian. podcast: https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/podcast-spring-lit-and-found-in-translation/Content?oid=9988801Article: https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/found-in-translation/Content?oid=9986738
- [October fundraiser features Matthew Zapruder & Prageeta Sharma](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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
- [Second Tuesday Reading: Eliot Schain & Patrick Cahill](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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
- [Dec 6: Sixteen Rivers Presents Faylita Hicks and James Cagney](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/dec-6-sixteen-rivers-presents-faylita-hicks-and-james-cagney) - Our Second Sixteen Rivers Presents Please join us on Sunday, December 6, at 3 p.m., for the second reading in our ongoing series, Sixteen Rivers Presents. Our featured poets are Faylita Hicks and James Cagney. Faylita Hicks is a poet, essayist, and interdisciplinary artist born in Gardena, CA, and raised in Central Texas. Their work has been featured in Adroit, American Poetry Review, The
- [Spring Readings for 2021 Authors](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/spring-readings-for-2021-authors) - Sun August 15: Poetry on Sundays featuring Stella Beratlis and Dane Cervine; 2 pm, hosted by Gary Thomas with open mic following featured readers. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375142037. Sun August 29: Sixteen Rivers Presents Dane Cervine and Stella Beratlis, Please join us on Sunday, August 29, 3 PM in person, at the Northbrae Community Church, 941 The
- [Sixteen Rivers 2023 Book Launch](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/sixteen-rivers-2023-book-launch) - Sixteen Rivers Press is pleased to announce our two publications for 2023: Songbirds of the Nine Rivers, by Jospeh Zaccardi and All Tomorrow's Train Rides, by Matthew M. Monte. Join us for the book launch. We'll be at Book Passage in Corte Madera on April 2 at 4 PM. We can't wait to see you!
- [Sixteen Rivers Presents: The 2024 authors](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/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
- [Publish with Sixteen Rivers Press](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/publish-with-sixteen-rivers-press-2) - 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.
- [Welcome to Our New Press Members](https://sixteenrivers.org/news-announcements/welcome-to-our-new-press-members) - Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has creations in video, dance, spoken word, live music and software. ravel, her first book, was a finalist for prizes by White Pine Press and New Rivers Press. Her second book, The Quenching (Finishing Line Press, 2022), furthers her multilingual, experimental aesthetic. The dance, music and poetry performance Liriope at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve was the culmination of Bonnie’s residency at Stanford University.
- [Poems from In Search of Landscape by Helen Wickes](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/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
- [Poems from World as You Left It by Helen Wickes](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/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
- [Poems from The Opposite of Clairvoyance by Gillian Wegener](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/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
- [Poems from In the Body of Our Lives by Jeanne Wagner](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-in-the-body-of-our-lives-by-jeanne-wagner) - My mother was like the bees because she needed a lavish taste on her tongue, a daily tipple of amber and gold to waft her into the sky, a soluble heat trickling down her throat. Who could blame her for starting out each morning with a swig of something furious in her belly, for days
- [Poems from Falling World by Lynn Lyman Trombetta](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-falling-world-by-lynn-lyman-trombetta) - View from the Headland: Hare Creek Beach, Mendocino Except for the gulls, which lift in languid curves from the sand and swing back down, they are the only ones on the beach, this teenage couple cutting their afternoon classes. She is ten feet ahead of him, her shoes already off, thrown down. Her long skirt
- [Poems from Any Old Wolf by Murray Silverstein](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-any-old-wolf-by-murray-silverstein) - ANY OLD WOLF Puzzled by all that e-i, e-i, o business on Old McDonald’s Farm, I once thought vowels were feed, like hay or slop, and therefore the critters cried neigh or moo, oink or baaa: they needed to be fed. They came with consonants like teeth, but vowels came from the man. And when
- [Poems from No Easy Light by Susan Sibbet](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-no-easy-light-by-susan-sibbet) - The Longing for Coffee —the bitter thick taste of it against the mouth roof, the knowing back of the tongue. The black steam rising silently, damp cup warming the fingers, cheek, bright, the bright— eyes opening after weeks of rain. The lashes stick with waking salt. Veins and passages, blood and sound clear. Light pulls
- [Poems from Poems from The Distant Sound by Eliot Schain](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-poems-from-the-distant-sound-by-eliot-schain) - SPARK When the lightning came through the socket in the house he went out onto the Great American Plain to confront his maker and in the thick night air with only smatterings of rain but the deep thunder that tickles bone he thought of the visions that have changed the world—the brave if slightly stupid
- [Poems from The Orbit of Known Objects by Lisa Erin Robertson](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-the-orbit-of-known-objects-by-lisa-erin-robertson) - The Mineral Kingdom ~ Lisa Erin Robertson Just an hour outside of Las Vegas, the sky chilled Baker through winter nights, my cheek against the Ford glass, black and cold like that desert, nothing between December-dead creosote and a sky that glittered like druze, mineral black gleam of coal or diamonds that shone in defiance
- [Poems from The Long Night of Flying by Sharon Olson](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-the-long-night-of-flying-by-sharon-olson) - Remembering in Part The Church is auctioning off its precious artifacts. My mother’s hands press into the floured dough. In lot three, a set of praying hands, nineteenth century, Alsace-Lorraine. With her hands behind my head like a benediction, my mother pushes me off to school. I am searching for a body, terra-cotta, to go
- [Ito Naga's Pensees from I Know (Je sais)](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/ito-nagas-pensees-i-know-je-sais) - Translated from the French by the author and Sixteen Rivers poet Lynne Knight, I Know (Je sais) is a collection of 469 observations on life and the universe by a scientist whose eye for detail is keen and whose sense of humor is refreshing. The book is profound without being ponderous, instructive without being pedantic,
- [Poems from After Cocteau by Carolyn Miller](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-after-cocteau-by-carolyn-miller) - After Cocteau: Beauty’s Father in the Castle of the Beast for Lee Hildreth When the thorny hedge opened for him, he was astonished; when it closed behind him, the leaves and twigs knitting themselves seamlessly together in the darkness, fear flooded his body, and went with him on the path through the wild garden,
- [Poems from Light, Moving  by Carolyn Miller](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-light-moving-by-carolyn-miller) - Childhood Rivers You must approach them slowly, for they are rimmed with green fur and slippery stones. The smell of them rises up and you walk through it, like velvet curtains parting. The pebbles clank beneath your feet, and dragonflies sail by, purple- blue and iridescent, and the fur stirs in the green water, and
- [Poems from What I Stole by Diane Sher Lutovich](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-what-i-stole-by-diane-sher-lutovich) - What I Stole I stole endlessly as if the center of the universe were all mine. I stole brazenly, stripped off my clothes to steal gazes, entire pages from the encyclopedia, attention and time from teachers, glances from mirrors. I stole others’ ideas, my father’s succulence, Snickers bars from the five-and-dime, a seat in the
- [Poems from In the Right Season by Diane Sher Lutovich](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-in-the-right-season-by-diane-sher-lutovich) - It’s About Time Today I want to invite the dead in, show them to a well-padded chair, offer a cup of chamomile tea, finally ready to listen to them talk about pain, narrowing of the spirit. When they were dying, each of my joints was a well-lubed machine part, stomach ready for chocolate malts, stuffed
- [Poems from Again by Lynne Knight](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-again-by-lynne-knight) - Prologue While we slept, such heavy rain swept past it shook the last roses loose. They lay smashed on the deck this morning, their petals scattered like big white tears. I shouldn’t say a thing so sentimental. But there they were. And you, my father, so long dead, why should I not expect you to
- [Poems from Snake at the Wrist by Margaret Kaufman](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-snake-at-the-wrist-by-margaret-kaufman) - Tree of Life, a Triptych I. The tree, its branches laden one of them propped with a forked pole to support the weight of nectarines. Rising from ice plant on the slope, a mist of fruit flies. II. Small devotional: in a pool of rotting fruit quail devour the windfall. III. A woman carries
- [Poems from Inheritance by Margaret Kaufman](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-inheritance-by-margaret-kaufman) - Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949 (After Larry Levis) I’m going to put Karen Prasse right here in front of you on this page so that you won’t mistake her for something else, an example of precocity, for instance, a girl who knew that the sky (blue crayon) was above the earth (green crayon) and
- [Poems from The Stranger Dissolves by Christina Hutchins](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-the-stranger-dissolves-by-christina-hutchins) - The Poet to Her Poem Make of my elbows small pebbles rolling the river bottom, a fierce and pummeling sweep. If you will, build of my limbs and trunk the supple breast and weight of the water. Of my hands, eels, my ears twin leeches sucking sound, already these feet are two swift fish flicking
- [Poems from Space/Gap/Interval/Distance by Judy Halebsky](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-space-gap-interval-distance-by-judy-halebsky) - A Breaking Word There’s that part after Basho writes old still pond of pressing a fingerprint into wet clay where the word ya holds a space in the air a cloud changes shape in the sky make it a dash, a murmur a breath on the inhale this old pond so many have tried to
- [Poems from All night in the new country by Miriam Bird Greenberg](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-all-night-in-the-new-country-by-miriam-bird-greenberg) - Elegy Early on in the city on weekends claimed by fog I came back to your farmstead, your emptied creekside shanty-house from my laboratory wage work with pockets full of micropipettes and stolen white gloves as if to outfit a regiment of ghost-butlers in an imagined antebellum manor neither of us, if offered, would
- [Poems from Plagios/Plagiarisms (Volume One) by Ulalume González de Leόn](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-plagios-plagiarisms-volume-one-by-ulalume-gonzalez-de-leόn) - VOCES El viento y las palabras no escarmientan: siempre desenterrando caracoles donde estrenar su viejo asunto. A sí mismos se plagian. VOICES Wind and words don’t learn their lesson: always digging up shells where old affairs make their debut. They plagiarize themselves. PALABRA Pronunciada palabra tán sola tán desnuda: regrésate a vestirte
- [Poems from Plagios/Plagiarisms Vol. 2 by Ulalume González de Leόn](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-plagios-plagiarisms-vol-2) - DIURNO el día es lo que sucede alrededor de nuestros cuerpos sobrevive en la noche como una burbuja privada de la luz en la que siempre tiene el amor los ojos abiertos para que sólo soñemos que soñamos atentos a nuestro pacto de ser diurnos con párpados que bailan en la punta de un géyser
- [Poems from Swimmer Climbing onto Shore by Gerald Fleming](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-swimmer-climbing-onto-shore-by-gerald-fleming) - Did Where’d the geckoes go, my daughter said when she got up & at leisure there at the white table —a plain man & his beautiful daughter— we played with it: Where’d the geckoes go Where’d the geckoes go Then she wondered what sounds better: Where’d the geckoes go or Where did the geckoes go
- [Poems from The Choreographer by Gerald Fleming](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-the-choreographer-by-gerald-fleming) - Companionship, she’d written, certainly at first, and he’d answered—wanted to meet early—so okay, we’ll meet at 8 a.m., she wrote, and at least this is no lazy man, and she came at eight, the café up the hill by, what was it—a memorial to some soldiers, some war?—and he was already there in the blue
- [Read Poems from Lucky Break by Terry Ehret](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/read-poems-from-lucky-break-by-terry-ehret) - Lucky Break A white marble wheel has many uses: travel, for example, or shaping clay; a simple lathe but, like any tool, needing balance. Else the center, which is empty, cannot hold, lets loose its own purpose, fragments flying untethered from any force centripetal, explodes its form, stone wheeling, broken into clavicle and pelvis, petal
- [Poems from Translations From the Human Language by Terry Ehret](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-translations-from-the-human-language-by-terry-ehret) - Thirst This year I’ve felt the push of antlers thrusting out of my head. I’ve leaned my head many times toward the grass, stretching my neck to drink. This year I’ve awoken from the catacombs of sleep, my cheeks wet with spring water, my heart beating like a river sprung from rock. Sometimes in
- [Poems from The World Is God’s Language by Dane Cervine](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-the-world-is-gods-language-by-dane-cervine) - Breast ​ It was in some obscure motel room, cheap, and I was young. But there it was, luminous orb falling from my mother’s bra as she changed clothes in close quarters. I had no memory of infant days—swell of milk, suckle of nipple—no glimpse of the days yet to come. All I knew, in one
- [Poems from difficult news by Valerie Berry](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-difficult-news-by-valerie-berry) - the fallen caryatids: Rodin Close to Orpheus, their backs to the Gates of Hell, they balance their burdens in a slow, bronze falling. Supple as trees these women fold into themselves, assuming the unborn shape left long ago for the difficult work of their straightening. Now weight breaks the symmetry of shoulders in graceful collapse.
- [Poems from Alkali Sink by Stella Beratlis](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-alkali-sink-by-stella-beratlis) - Mustard Greens, Interstate 580 With enough olive oil and lemon juice, it was easy for her to overlook the occasional woody stem, their bitter tang: roadside mustard, dandelion greens, right there at the freeway’s side— first a bag, then the entire trunk stuffed full. She came to carry a knife in the glove box to
- [Poems from Mapmaker of Absences by Maria M. Benet](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-mapmaker-of-absences-by-maria-m-benet) - Trees at Dawn for Simone Weil In the vaulted spaces that bracketed the trees, I saw her body’s hollow, shaft to thread of light that bolts her to the firmament— Trees, she once wrote, are rooted in the sky, seeing how they live by light— Behold the brilliance, its chiseled periphery, a halo that obliterates
- [Poems from Practice by Dan Bellm](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-practice-by-dan-bellm) - Practice Every seventh year you shall practice remission of debts. Deuteronomy 15:1 How simple it ought to be, to practice compassion on someone gone, even love him, long as he’s not right there in front of me, for I turned to address him, as I do, and saw that no one’s lived in that spot
- [Poems from Beyond the Time of Words by Marjorie Agosín](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-beyond-the-time-of-words-by-marjorie-agosin) - Más allá del tiempo de las palabras Más allá del tiempo y las palabras La bruma disipando las formas, Crepitando entre los umbrales, Siempre la niebla hechicera, Invitada inoportuna y a destiempo. El pasar de un tiempo sin tiempo, Un silencio sin ecos. El terror a los espejos y a nosotros, Viajamos entre las sombras
- [Poems from Today’s Special Dish by Nina Lindsay](https://sixteenrivers.org/poems/poems-from-todays-special-dish-by-nina-lindsay) - ~by Nina Lindsay Today’s Special Dish It was the morning’s sweetness, a cold wind on warm air and the papery smell of wisteria, that tempted me to homemade tortellini for your lunch. Now, broth simmering, the pasta is dry and cracking in my fingers. The last time we spoke was like this, frazzled, rushed, marked
- [Sixteen Rivers Press Annual Fundraiser 2014](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/sixteen-rivers-press-annual-fundraiser-2014) - Save the Date! SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS AT FIFTEEN INVITES YOU TO A GARDEN PARTY To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a garden party featuring a reading by honored poet Kay Ryan, with light refreshments and Prosecco served on the grounds of a Marin County estate. Tickets are priced at four
- [Silverstein and Burch to read at Valona Series on Sunday, January 11](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/silverstein-and-burch-to-read-at-valona-series-on-sunday-january-11) - Join Murray Silverstein and Beverly Burch this Sunday as they read from their work at the Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series, hosted by Connie Post. The reading starts at 3 pm and is followed by an open mic period. At Valona Delicatessen & Café, 1323 Pomona Street, Crockett. (Valona Deli Second Sunday Poetry Series
- [Beverly Burch at the Petaluma Poetry Walk](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/beverly-burch-at-the-petaluma-poetry-walk) - Beverly Burch will read at the Petaluma Poetry Walk on Sept 21, at 11am. The address of the reading is 199 Petaluma Blvd, North.
- [Helen Wickes with Troy Jollimore at Ravenswood](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/helen-wickes-with-troy-jollimore-at-ravenswood) - Helen Wickes, whose fourth collection World As You Left It will be published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, will be reading on September 7 with Troy Jollimore at Ravenswood historic site in Livermore, 2pm. See flier for more information.
- [Beverly Burch at Petaluma Poetry Walk](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/beverly-burch-at-petaluma-poetry-walk) - The 19th Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk takes place Sept. 21, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at eight venues. Beverly Burch, author of the recent Sixteen Rivers collection How a Mirage Works, will be reading with Donna Emerson and John Johnson at the Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd., N., at 11 a.m. See www.petalumapoetrywalk.org for full schedule.
- [Paris Reading: Gerald Fleming, May 13](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/paris-reading-gerald-fleming-may-13) - Gerald Fleming, author of The Choreographer and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore, will read Kit Fryatt and Carole Glasser Langille at Carr's Pub, 1 rue du Mont Thabor, 75001 Paris.
- [City Lights Reading, Tuesday April 22](https://sixteenrivers.org/readings-events/city-lights-reading-tuesday-april-22) - Beverly Burch and Murray Silverstein will read from their new books on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 P.M. at City Lights, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco (415) 362-8193

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## Authors

- [Helen Wickes](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/helen-wickes) - Helen Wickes was raised on a horse farm in southeastern Pennsylvania and attended Vassar College. She lives in Oakland, California, has a Ph.D. in psychology, and worked for many years as a psychotherapist.
- [Margaret Kaufman](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/margaret-kaufman) - Margaret Kaufman, poet and fiction writer, is the author of five books of poetry, including letterpress limited editions published by the Gefn Press (London), The Janus Press (Vermont), and Protean Press (San Francisco).
- [Joseph Zaccardi](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/joseph-zaccardi) - Appointed poet laureate of Marin County, California, Joseph Zaccardi served from 2013 to 2015.
- [Jacqueline Kudler](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/jacqueline-kudler) - Jacqueline Kudler is a teacher of memoir writing and literature at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary reviews, magazines, and anthologies.
- [Ulalume González de Leόn](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/ulalume-gonzalez-de-leόn) - Ulalume González de León was born in 1928 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the daughter of two poets, Roberto Ibañez and Sara de Ibañez. She studied literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Mexico.
- [Marjorie Agosín](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/marjorie-agosin) - Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean American poet who writes in Spanish, her native language. She is also a human rights activist and the Andrew Mellon professor of the Humanities at Wellesley College.
- [Camille Norton](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/camille-norton) - Camille Norton is a Professor of English at University of the Pacific, in Stockton, CA, Camille Norton teaches courses in poetry, gender studies, and critical theory.
- [Carolyn Miller](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/carolyn-miller) - CAROLYN MILLER is a book editor, writer, and painter living in San Francisco. Three limited-edition letterpress books of her poetry, most recently a chapbook, This Is Mine (2004), have been published by Protean Press.
- [Eliot Schain](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/eliot-schain) - Eliot Schain’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Santa Monica Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Miramar, among other journals, as well as in two anthologies: The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, and Christopher Buckley and Gary Young’s Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California.
- [Alice Templeton](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/alice-templeton) - Alice Templeton’s poems and short stories have appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Calyx, North American Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.
- [Janet Jennings](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/janet-jennings) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Janet_Jennings_authorpic-1.jpg” alt=”picture of Janet Jennings” title_text=”Janet_Jennings_authorpic (1)” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Janet Jennings [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″
- [Patrick Cahill](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/patrick-cahill) - Patrick Cahill grew up in South Dakota and western Washington, and his memories of those places often crop up in his work.
- [Gregory Mahrer](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/gregory-mahrer) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Greg_Mahrer-authorpic.jpg” alt=”Greg Mahrer” title_text=”Greg_Mahrer authorpic” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Gregory Mahrer [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Gregory Mahrer
- [Lenore Myers](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/lenore-myers) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Lenimo-RBF.jpg” alt=”author photo” title_text=”Lenimo RBF” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Lenore M. Myers [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Lenore
- [Gerald Fleming](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/gerald-fleming) - Gerald Fleming’s work has appeared widely in magazines, anthologies, and online.
- [!Author Template](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/author-template) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/William-Shakespeare-by-John-Taylor.jpg” title_text=”William-Shakespeare-by-John-Taylor” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] William Shakespeare [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Author Bio William Shakespeare (bapt.
- [Anthologies and CDs](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/anthologies-and-cds) - Anthologies and CDs from Sixteen Rivers Press.
- [Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/bonnie-wai-lee-kwong) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/bonnie-wai-lee-kwong.jpg” alt=”photo of author” title_text=”bonnie-wai-lee-kwong” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Bonnie
- [Moira Magneson](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/moira-magneson) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Author Photo & Bio” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#B8D5D1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://sixteenrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/magnesonMoira-pc-publicist-.png” alt=”photo of Moira Magneson” title_text=”magnesonMoira (pc publicist )” align=”center” admin_label=”Author Photo” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Photo Caption” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Moira Magneson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Author Bio” _builder_version=”4.27.4″
- [Beth Spencer](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/beth-spencer) - Beth Spencer is the founding editor of Bear Star Press, which publishes poetry and short fiction by writers living in the western states.
- [Stella Beratlis](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/stella-beratlis) - Stella Beratlis grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her poetry collection, Dust Bowl Venus, was published in May 2021.
- [Matthew M. Monte](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/matthew-monte) - Matthew M. Monte grew up near San Francisco, California and went to the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he studied botany. His fiction, poetry, book reviews, music reviews, journalism, and essays have appeared in Sidestream, Creosote Journal, Transfer, Ashcan Magazine, The Snackbar Collective, iNaturalist, Panorama, and the Poets 11 Anthologies (2014 and 2016).
- [Susan Herron Sibbet](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/susan-sibbet) - Susan Herron Sibbet, one of the seven founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, published her first full-length poetry collection, No Easy Light, with the press in 2004.
- [Judy Halebsky](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/judy-halebsky) - Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, Judy Halebsky studied art and literature in Japan for five years on fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Culture.
- [Jeanne Wagner](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/jeanne-wagner) - Jeanne Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Joy Harjo Award and the 2022 Cloudbank Poetry Prize, among others. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Cincinnati Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, SWWIM, and The Southern Review.
- [Ito Naga](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/ito-naga) - Ito Naga is the nom de plume of a prominent French astrophysicist living in Paris. He is the author of several books, all published in France.
- [Gillian Wegener](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/gillian-wegener) - Gillian Wegener is the author of several books of poetry: a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001), and a full-length collection, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and her new collection, This Sweet Haphazard (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017).
- [Erin Rodoni](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/erin-rodoni) - Erin Rodoni is the author of Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss, which won the 2016 Stevens Manuscript Prize sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
- [Diane Sher Lutovich](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/diane-sher-lutovich) - Diane Sher Lutovich’s poetry has received several awards and has appeared in a number of reviews and anthologies. She is the author of Nobody’s Child: How Older Women Say Good-bye to Their Mothers, published by Baywood Press.
- [Dane Cervine](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/dane-cervine) - Dane Cervine is a poet whose books include Earth Is a Fickle Dancer (Main Street Rag) and The Gateless Gate – Polishing the Moon Sword, from Saddle Road Press in Hawaii.
- [Dan Bellm](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/dan-bellm) - Dan Bellm has taught literary translation and poetry in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles, and at New York University.
- [Christina Lloyd](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/christina-lloyd) - Christina Lloyd is a poet and educator who lives in San Francisco. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, and her work has appeared in various publications.
- [Christina Hutchins](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/christina-hutchins) - Christina Hutchins teaches philosophy and poetry to graduate students at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
- [Beverly Burch](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/beverly-burch) - Beverly Burch's books have won a John Ciardi Poetry Prize, a Gival Poetry Prize, a Lambda Literary Award and were finalists for an Audre Lorde Award and a Housatonic Award.
- [Barbara Swift Brauer](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/barbara-swift-brauer) - Barbara Swift Brauer is a freelance writer living in San Geronimo, California. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies as well as in art exhibitions and installations.
- [Nina Lindsay](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/nina-lindsay) - Nina Lindsay’s work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, the Colorado Review, Fence, Rattle, and many other journals, and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize.
- [Valerie Berry](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/valerie-berry) - Valerie Berry is a physician practicing community medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area. The images and themes in her poems are informed by her delight in the natural world, to which she brings an eye trained in clinical observation.
- [Terry Ehret](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/terry-ehret) - Terry Ehret is a poet, teacher, translator, and one of the founders of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional publishing collective run by San Francisco Bay Area poets. From 2004-2006, she served as the poet laureate of Sonoma County where she lives and teaches.
- [Sharon Olson](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/sharon-olson) - Sharon Olson retired in 2007 from the Palo Alto (California) City Library where she had been a reference librarian and cataloger since 1978. She earned a B.A. in Art History from Stanford and attended its campus in Florence, Italy, in 1967. She also has an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon.
- [Rosa Lane](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/rosa-lane) - ROSA LANE is a native of coastal Maine with familial and ancestral roots steeped in lobster fishing. She is author of Tiller North, published in 2016 by Sixteen Rivers Press.
- [Murray Silverstein](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/murray-silverstein) - Murray Silverstein grew up in Los Angeles, California. He wrote poetry in his teens and twenties but set this work aside to become an architect, studying at UC Berkeley in the 1960s.
- [Miriam Bird Greenberg](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/miriam-bird-greenberg) - Miriam Bird Greenberg grew up on a farm in rural Texas and spent her childhood attempting to communicate with the ghosts who populated her family’s century-old homestead.
- [Maya Khosla](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/maya-khosla) - Maya Khosla was the Poet Laureate of Sonoma County (2018-2020). Her first book of poetry, Keel Bone, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was published by Bear Star Press.
- [Maria M. Benet](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/maria-m-benet) - MARIA M. BENET was born and grew up in Transylvania, Romania. As a teenager, she moved first to Budapest, Hungary, then later to Vancouver, Canada, where she earned a B.A. in Theater from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in Communication from Simon Fraser University.
- [Lynne Knight](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/lynne-knight) - Lynne Knight’s previous collections are Dissolving Borders (Quarterly Review of Literature), The Book of Common Betrayals (Bear Star Press), and Night in the Shape of a Mirror (David Robert Books), plus three award-winning chapbooks.
- [Lynn Lyman Trombetta](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/lynn-lyman-trombetta) - Lynn Lyman Trombetta is a third-generation Sonoma County native who lives with her husband on a former dairy ranch on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, California.
- [Lisa Erin Robertson](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/lisa-erin-robertson) - Lisa Erin Robertson was born in Sonoma County. She grew up in California and the Mojave. Her first book of poems, The Orbit of Known Objects, will be published in 2015 by Sixteen Rivers Press.
- [Lawrence Fixel](https://sixteenrivers.org/author-profiles/lawrence-fixel) - From his early beginning as a writer in the 1930s Works Progress Administration (under the direction of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison) to his death in 2003, Lawrence Fixel’s literary output was steady and prolific.

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