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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

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Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

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Price: $20
Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

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In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

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Price: $18
Page count: 118
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

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the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

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Price: $18
Page count: 104
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-40-0

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Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

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Price: $12
Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

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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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News and Events

Helen Wickes has three poems published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review

Helen Wickes has three poems, "Harrow,"Still Life on the Road to Los Ojos," and "The Vagrant Spirit," published in the Spring 2014 edition of the Citron Review.

Sixteen Rivers at AWP

Sixteen Rivers at AWP Wednesday, Feb 26 Jacqueline Kudler will read her selected poems from The Widows' Handbook anthology, on Wednesday night, Feb. 26, 7 PM at Queen Anne Book Company, 1811 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle Friday, Feb 28 Beverly Burch and Terry Ehret...