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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Beverly Burch wins 2018 John Ciardi Poetry Prize

Beverly Burch, whose collection How a Mirage Works was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2014, has won the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Latter Days of Eve, will be published by BkMk Press in 2019.

NEW 2018 ANTHOLOGY

America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience, born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states and blue states, high schools and nursing homes, big cities and small towns—with the...

Anthology Forthcoming in September 2018

Early this fall, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience. Born in response to the 2016 Presidential election, this anthology combines the voices of poets from across America—from red states...

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