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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Beratlis, Wickes, and Robertson at La Luz de Jesus

Join Stella Beratlis, Helen Wickes, and Lisa Erin Robertson at a shindig celebrating the birthdays of three Angelenos active in the music and art worlds. Party opens with a set of vintage country and hillbilly sounds from musician Skip Heller, followed by readings by...

Welcome Erin Rodoni, Sixteen Rivers’ Newest Poet

Erin Rodoni is a third generation Point Reyes native, but was born with a severe case of wanderlust and has found many temporary homes all over the world. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She was the recipient of a 2013 Intro Journals...

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