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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Happy Publication Day

We are proud to announce our 2020 subscription titles: The Machinery of Sleep by Patrick Cahill, The Distant Sound by Eliot Schain, and Plagios/Plagiarisms by Ulalume González de León. The publication date for all three is April 2, 2020. Subscribers who order our...

Fixel reading tonight at Moe’s

Tonight, Thursday Feb 27: Celebration and book launch for THE COLLECTED POETRY & PROSE OF LAWRENCE FIXEL, by the late San Francisco poet, edited and with an introduction by GERALD FLEMING. Also appearing and presenting Lawrence Fixel's work at this event will be...

Kickoff of new series at The Hidden Cafe postponed

In the interest of practicing voluntary social isolation, we're postponing this event to a later date, TBD.  Sixteen Rivers Presents At The Hidden Cafe A POETRY READING WITH MATTHEW ZAPRUDER AND ERIN RODONI Sunday, March 29th 2020, 3:30-5:00, free. The Hidden Cafe,...

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