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Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
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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,...
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...
NCBA in Poetry Translation goes to PLAGIOS/ PLAGIARISMS Vol. 1
Congratulations to Terry Ehret, Nancy J. Morales, and John Johnson, who won the NCBA this afternoon for Poetry in Translation for their work on PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL I by Ulalume González de Leόn. What an honor to be chosen among such a strong field of nominees....
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