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

To the Human Race: Hope River 3, Poems from Young Teens

Selected by Sixteen Rivers Press and Davis Poet Laureate Emerita Julia B. Levine

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Publication date: September 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-47-9
Paperback / 61 pages

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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...

Terry Ehret in September

Terry will be performing another music and poetry collaboration with her daughter Caitlin Moe on Sunday, September 6 at the Redwood Cafe in Cotati. Terry and Caitlin will join two fellow Sonoma County Poets Laureate, Gwynne O'Gara and Mike Tuggle. The program runs 5-7...

Event: Covered in Birds (June 6, 2015)

On June 6, Sixteen Rivers poet Terry Ehret was one of nine Sonoma County poets who collaborated with the nine musicians of the jazz ensemble Take Jack for an evening of poetry and music. The sold-out event, called "Covered in Birds,"  was a benefit to celebrate the...

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