Dane Cervine’s 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.

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…Read More

2019 Fundraising Campaign

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…Read More

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…Read More

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…Read More

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.

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.

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).