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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Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted Pushcart nominations

Sixteen Rivers Press has submitted the following Pushcart nominations: “Crucifixion, Kinetic,” and “Passencore,” from Gerald Fleming’s The Choreographer, and “Love Poem,” and “Arrival,” from Miriam Bird Greenberg’s All night in the new country, and “The Small Knock,”...

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