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….Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
New press members Matthew Monte & Joseph Zaccardi
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…Read More
Sixteen Rivers Presents reading on Sep. 26 featuring 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…Read More