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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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Fall Fundraiser with W. S. Di Piero and Ellen Bass
SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS INVITES YOU TO OUR FALL FUNDRAISER & GARDEN PARTY Join us at a private home in Berkeley at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday, October 8, 2016, for an afternoon of wine, hors d'oeuvres, and readings by two acclaimed poets: ELLEN BASS AND W. S. DI PIERO...
Sixteen Rivers Welcomes Beth Spencer
Sixteen Rivers is delighted to welcome Beth Spencer, whose poetry collection will be published in 2018. Beth brings with her years of editorial and design expertise, having run Bear Star Press since 1996, editing, designing and publishing books by poets from the...
Alkali Sink nominee for Northern California Book Award
Alkali Sink by Stella Beratlis has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry published in 2015. Dan Bellm, whose book Practice was published by Sixteen Rivers in 2009 is a nominee in Poetry in Translation for his translation of Description of a...
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