Sixteen Rivers Press Fall Fundraiser & 26th Anniversary 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.
Reading and Book Events for Sixteen Rivers Press: September – November 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 7 pm Second Tuesday Poetry @ Bookish Modesto Readers: Moira Magneson, Samantha Tetangco Ocena Location: Bookish Modesto, 811 Roseburg Ave, in the Roseburg Square shopping center Sunday, September 14, 6 pm Book Release & Celebration—Waking Up: Teen Poems of Resistance and Resilience Readers: Youth poets of Santa Cruz County Location: Garden Room,…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
Poems from Sacred Precinct by Jacqueline Kudler
Another Kind of Crazy Just reaching to open the door of Starbucks when he pushes out in a burst of hurry—flash of a man, fleshy and bald-pated, face florid, single-purposed, and just as I calculate the odds of what kind of crazy—just run-of-the mill New York City kind or some sub-variety of dangerous crazy, he…Read More
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).
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).