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.

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…Read More

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.

In the Body of Our Lives by Jeanne Wagner – 2011

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…Read More

The Stranger Dissolves by Christina Hutchins – 2011

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)…Read More

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….Read More

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….Read More