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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November Readings

On Sunday, November 24, 2013 from 3 PM to 5 PM, Sixteen Rivers Press poet Barbara Swift Brauer (At Ease in the Borrowed World) will read with prose writer Kaitlyn Gallagher at the MINE Gallery in Fairfax, California, at 1820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, on Sunday, November...

Sixteen Rivers Press Annual Fundraiser

Save the Date! SIXTEEN RIVERS PRESS AT FIFTEEN INVITES YOU TO A GARDEN PARTY To celebrate our fifteenth anniversary, Sixteen Rivers Press welcomes you to a garden party featuring a reading by honored poet Kay Ryan, with light refreshments and Prosecco served on the...

Lynne Knight’s Interview with Ito Naga

The following interview in English with Ito Naga was conducted in English by e-mail in May 2013. Could you talk a little bit about how Je sais came into being? I had been looking for Georges Pérec’s Je me souviens for quite some time.  I’d only heard of it and I...

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