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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Dane Cervine’s work in Monterey Poetry Review

Three of the prose poems that will appear in Dane's forthcoming collection, The World Is God’s Language, appear in the Spring 2020 issue of Monterey Poetry Review. Dane's full-length collection will be published in early April 2021.

Pushcart nominees for 2020

Sixteen Rivers Press nominated six poems for the 2020 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XIX: From A Folio for the Dark by Camille Norton: “Quaker Light” and “The Black Dog.” From All the Fires of Wind and Light by Maya Khosla, “Synchronicity” and “The Sierra:...

2019 Fundraising Campaign

Like most independent poetry presses, we can't publish without your support. Because you believe in the power of words, please consider contributing to Sixteen Rivers Press. Projects include three collections in 2020 and two in 2021. Specifically, planned books in...

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