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If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

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Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

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Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

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Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

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In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

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Page count: 118
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the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

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Page count: 104
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Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

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

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Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
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News and Events

Second Tuesday Poetry: Ulalume González de León reading on May 12

Join the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center via Zoom on the second Tuesday in May to celebrate the publication of Ulalume González de León's PLAGIOS/PLAGIARISMS VOL. 1, with project translators Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales. Poet, essayist, and...

Book launch & reading April 26, 2020

Please Join Us for a Sixteen Rivers Zoom Book Launch and Reading Celebrating the New Publications for 2020 Sunday April 26 at 3 PM Pacific Time With the ongoing COVID-19 situation, our April and May events to launch our new publications have been shifted to an online...