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Welcome
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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News and Events
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...
Rosa Lane wins 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize
Rosa Lane, whose first collection Tiller North was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2015, has won the 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize. Her manuscript, Chouteau’s Chalk, was selected by judge Magdalena Zurawski and will be published by University of Georgia Press in February...
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