Featured Titles for 2025

If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 118
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 104
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-40-0

Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $12
Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

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October fundraiser features Matthew Zapruder & Prageeta Sharma

Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 pm PDTOur 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...

Erin Rodoni’s third 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....

The Distant Sound featured

Eliot Schain’s 2020 collection, The Distant Sound, is featured at Katherine Hastings’s Word Temple blog (May 26, 2020).

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