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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 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...
2018 Publications Available
We're proud to announce our 2018 publications, Lynne Knight's The Language of Forgetting and Beth Spencer's The Cloud Museum. Early in the fall of 2018, Sixteen Rivers Press will release our second anthology, America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and...
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