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

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Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press

The Fall Fundraiser for Sixteen Rivers Press will feature readings by Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, plus a silent auction. Admission is free, and donations are welcomed. Sunday, Oct. 20, 2:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).

Sixteen Rivers Presents: The 2024 authors

Christina Lloyd, Murray Silverstein, and Alice Templeton—will be reading their poetry and discussing the topic of "Lineages" on Saturday, Sept. 21, at 3:00 pm at Northbrae Community Church (941 The Alameda, Berkeley).

Readings for 2024 Books

April 10, Wednesday, Readers’ Books, 7 p.m. 103 East Napa St., Sonoma Alice Templeton, Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd April 14, Sunday, Book Passage, 4 p.m. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd, Alice Templeton April 20,...

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