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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...
Helen Wickes at Moe’s Books: January 21, 2016
Helen Wickes, author of World as You Left It, will read with Dan Bellm at Moe's Books on Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 7:30.
Pushcart Nominations from the press and for press members
Sixteen Rivers is proud to nominate poems from our 2015 publications for the Pushcart Prize. From Stella Beratlis's ALKALI SINK, "Koda Farms, South Dos Palos" and "Patterson Pass." From Lisa Erin Robertson's THE ORBIT OF KNOWN OBJECTS, "Engagement" and "The Mineral...
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