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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This Sweet Haphazard reviewed in New Pages

Gillian Wegener's collection, This Sweet Haphazard, published in April of this year, was reviewed in New Pages by Daniel Klawitter. For more information about This Sweet Haphazard, please see Wegener's author page.

Sixteen Rivers Press Announces Our Newest Authors

Sixteen Rivers Press is delighted to welcome new author-members Camille Norton and Maya Khosla, whose poetry collections will be published in 2019, along with Rain, Like a Thief, a second collection by press member Barbara Swift Brauer. Norton’s manuscript—A Folio for...

Tiller North a winner in the Indie Excellent Award

Tiller North by Rosa Lane was selected as the winner of the poetry category in the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Congratulations, Rosa! A list of winners and finalists can be found at NIEA.  See Rosa Lane's author page.

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